>“On October 7, 1940, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested members of Technocracy Incorporated, charging them with belonging to an illegal organization. One of the arrested was Joshua Norman Haldeman, a Regina chiropractor, former leader of the Regina branch of Technocracy Incorporated in Saskatchewan, and the **maternal grandfather of Elon Musk**.“
The largest issue with technocracy is that executives with zero understanding in numerous fields feel qualified. Musk, Jobs, Gates, Bezos are/were hype men, not actual engineers or scientists. Of that batch, Gates and Jobs could write 60s, 70s, and 80s code. Buffett is probably the only billionaire in the US to understand he isn’t a ruler. Technocracy run on it’s purest form would be ruled by people most have never heard of and likely would fail to communicate with the masses. The difficulty is not with finding 140 to 220 IQs, it is being able to determine which can do it while remaining impartial.
AdInfamous6290 on
Unoriginal American expansionist fever dream. Also, technocracy is an unbelievably lame ideology, if you’re going to embrace authoritarianism at least have some pageantry to go with it.
ConundrumMachine on
Iirc this was Elon’s graddaddy’s idea and the reason he got kicked out of Canada
Temporary_Dog1073 on
I bet Trump saw this exact picture…
Temporary_Dog1073 on
Yup.
MrZaptile933 on
This would be the most disjointed country on the planet it would crack like Yugoslavia
meelawsh on
Get this crap out of my feed
TehTimmah1981 on
reminds me of some folks ‚around here….and further south…..like a certain African billionaire with delusions of genius.
mlee117379 on
This sounds like it could be the setting of a BioShock game
KikKikKik36 on
Mexico wasn’t fully conquered in 1848 because racism, Cuba in 1898 for similar reasons seemingly, this goes even further away.
Crazy_Gazelle_6239 on
If they keep moving south, and hold it, they’ll get the continent bonus for both. That’s another 7 guys next round
USSRPropaganda on
Omg kx reference!!!!
a_Bean_soup on
Intelligence is a double edged sword trait on a ruler, someone being an expert on what they do doesn’t make them a moral person. Sure, you can get competent people, but they can also be very competent at being corrupt and malicious.
80% of the Soviet Politburo under Brezhnev were engineering graduates but that didnt stop the stagnation under his rule or the following collapse of the Union a decade after his death.
Here in Mexico, Porfirio Diaz had a strong technocratic influence from his advisors „Los Científicos“ and despite that, the country was brutally impoverished despite economic growth, and things got so bad that people revolted and ended up getting into a 7 year long civil war that killed about 15% of the entire population.
sonic10158 on
Birmingham is listed on the map, but not Atlanta?
thatsocialist on
Technocracy Incorporated was the brainchild of Howard Scott, a American Engineer (though he lacked any official degree) after the Committee on Technocracy collapsed due to Walter Rautenstrauch supporting Political Democracy and Economic Technocracy whereas Scott supported total Technocracy in both Politics and Economics.
Technocracy Inc. was a openly Anti-Democratic movement which claimed to be „Further Left than Communism“ and defined itself as Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Socialist, and Anti-Communist. It advocated for a Engineer and Expert led economy that focused on minimizing working hours (They called for 4 hours of labor for 4 days a week) while maintaining amenity production. The Technocrats primary focus was on the Energy Theory of Value and they claimed that by 1940 the Price System would collapse and Technocracy would arrive via a „Peaceful Revolution.“ after the Organization’s claims repeatedly failed to manifest the Organization would begin to decline from it’s peak of hundreds of thousands of members, with it falling into total obscurity after Scott’s death.
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Interesting tidbit:
>“On October 7, 1940, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested members of Technocracy Incorporated, charging them with belonging to an illegal organization. One of the arrested was Joshua Norman Haldeman, a Regina chiropractor, former leader of the Regina branch of Technocracy Incorporated in Saskatchewan, and the **maternal grandfather of Elon Musk**.“
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The largest issue with technocracy is that executives with zero understanding in numerous fields feel qualified. Musk, Jobs, Gates, Bezos are/were hype men, not actual engineers or scientists. Of that batch, Gates and Jobs could write 60s, 70s, and 80s code. Buffett is probably the only billionaire in the US to understand he isn’t a ruler. Technocracy run on it’s purest form would be ruled by people most have never heard of and likely would fail to communicate with the masses. The difficulty is not with finding 140 to 220 IQs, it is being able to determine which can do it while remaining impartial.
Unoriginal American expansionist fever dream. Also, technocracy is an unbelievably lame ideology, if you’re going to embrace authoritarianism at least have some pageantry to go with it.
Iirc this was Elon’s graddaddy’s idea and the reason he got kicked out of Canada
I bet Trump saw this exact picture…
Yup.
This would be the most disjointed country on the planet it would crack like Yugoslavia
Get this crap out of my feed
reminds me of some folks ‚around here….and further south…..like a certain African billionaire with delusions of genius.
This sounds like it could be the setting of a BioShock game
Mexico wasn’t fully conquered in 1848 because racism, Cuba in 1898 for similar reasons seemingly, this goes even further away.
If they keep moving south, and hold it, they’ll get the continent bonus for both. That’s another 7 guys next round
Omg kx reference!!!!
Intelligence is a double edged sword trait on a ruler, someone being an expert on what they do doesn’t make them a moral person. Sure, you can get competent people, but they can also be very competent at being corrupt and malicious.
80% of the Soviet Politburo under Brezhnev were engineering graduates but that didnt stop the stagnation under his rule or the following collapse of the Union a decade after his death.
Here in Mexico, Porfirio Diaz had a strong technocratic influence from his advisors „Los Científicos“ and despite that, the country was brutally impoverished despite economic growth, and things got so bad that people revolted and ended up getting into a 7 year long civil war that killed about 15% of the entire population.
Birmingham is listed on the map, but not Atlanta?
Technocracy Incorporated was the brainchild of Howard Scott, a American Engineer (though he lacked any official degree) after the Committee on Technocracy collapsed due to Walter Rautenstrauch supporting Political Democracy and Economic Technocracy whereas Scott supported total Technocracy in both Politics and Economics.
Technocracy Inc. was a openly Anti-Democratic movement which claimed to be „Further Left than Communism“ and defined itself as Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Socialist, and Anti-Communist. It advocated for a Engineer and Expert led economy that focused on minimizing working hours (They called for 4 hours of labor for 4 days a week) while maintaining amenity production. The Technocrats primary focus was on the Energy Theory of Value and they claimed that by 1940 the Price System would collapse and Technocracy would arrive via a „Peaceful Revolution.“ after the Organization’s claims repeatedly failed to manifest the Organization would begin to decline from it’s peak of hundreds of thousands of members, with it falling into total obscurity after Scott’s death.