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With the current MPs, why do you think they do not do what's best for themselves, or for whoever is sponsoring their political campaigns and lobbying them const
by brabel 2y ago
With the current MPs, why do you think they do not do what's best for themselves, or for whoever is sponsoring their political campaigns and lobbying them constantly? The question is not whether a technocracy would be perfect, it's whether it would be better than that, and your argument has zero explanatory power to answer that.
- switch007 2y agoAnd the leaders of the proposed technocracy would be immune from lobbying and bribes?
- brabel 2y agoYes, because they would be easily "caught" if they didn't make decisions based on merit.
- tsimionescu 2y agoBy whom? What new institution that doesn't work today would work then?
- tsimionescu 2y agoBecause they still need to win an election, so at least some of them need to do at least a few things that makes them popular enough. A technocrat only needs to make sure people aren't so desperate as to rise up. This is really simple political theory, not some advanced concepts.
- brabel 2y agoNobody said the technocrats wouldn't also be elected, you made that up.
- tsimionescu 2y agoSo you simply want MPs who have a minimum standard of education? The fact that they are kept isolated for the duration of their term? That wouldn't prevent them from being bribed and lobbied in their election campaigns.