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If you want to see a non-democratic technocratic government in action, look to China. It's the largest working example of this philosophy in practice.
by moomin 2y ago
If you want to see a non-democratic technocratic government in action, look to China. It's the largest working example of this philosophy in practice.
- OutOfHere 2y agoThe big risk is that the outcome would be a lot like that of the USSR / Russia, meaning both dysfunctional and harmful, rather than successful.
- moomin 2y agoIndeed. People forget that one of the purposes of democracy simply to keep rulers honest and allow for the replacement of components that aren’t working. Which isn’t to say that ruling factions don’t spend a lot of time in democracies trying to neutralise this.
- mystified5016 2y agoThat hasn't been the case in the US for a long, long time. People haven't forgotten, it just no longer applies.