A technocrat is not an aspergian acne-nerd sitting in a basement, but anyone who is an expert in their field and thus equitable for administration
Do we really need to be tossing around such juvenile insults?
In other words new masters...this time ones that have probably never kissed a girl but can quite easily tell you how many hit points an Orc has.
Is this why you have such contempt for technically minded people? This statement makes you look positively luddite. Such exaggerations are not conducive to mature conversation.
I don't understand the problem, Iceberg Slim. The continental design does specify a different "set of masters" and never claimed to get rid of leadership. In fact, it supports what is known as, in deliberately non technical terms for the laymans understanding, "the pecking order".
But you already live in a pecking order and already have a "set of masters". I take it you have not heard the old adage that the geeks you picked on in school tend to become your boss later on? So why are you so concerned over a simple change in faces from politicians (who have no meritorious prequalifications beyond popularity) to engineers and scientists? Even this is a misnomer as not everyone 'in charge' need be engineers or scientists? They need only be competent managers. Why are you so enamored with the current economic-political system? Are you at all interested in solving some of the more intractable problems we, as a society, face today? We're certainly not going to further solve any of them under the currenly irrational price $y$tem.
As for the lack of empirical evidence for the way a person would behave in a Technocratic society, you would have to study the past 20 years of psychological and sociological research and extrapolate from there. I would suggest you concentrate on what is known as "game theory" as it pertains to microeconomics. You will find that nearly every study conducted in the past 20 years supports many claims Howard Scott and the Technical Alliance made back in the 1920s. People do change behavior under differing socio-economic conditions in a predictable way. It is also the current economic system that causes us to act in an economically irrational manner - according to its "rules".
For instance, nearly every professional investor will tell you that you are supposed to unload losing investments and keep the winners. But they will also tell you that the average investor does precisely the opposite - they sell the winners to gain short term profits and keep the losers in the hopes that they will turn around. The current investment system runs counter to our loss adversive psychology. In order to be rational using the current system, you have to behave in a manner counter to your own psychology. This is just one instance of a myriad number of irrational situations the current economic system imposes upon you; all of which would be eliminated. Not only by a change in the system of economics, but also through changes in education and training.
The same can be said of the current crisis in the housing industry. It would be rational to sell a house at a loss if you can no longer afford to make the payments. But a lot of homeowners are chosing to lose their house to forclosure rather than to sell it at a loss; thus further exacerbating the crisis.
The model of Technocracy is fully supported by both Freudian and Adlerian psychology.
And BTW, I am a 40 year old industrial worker with a wife and two children. I enjoy hunting and football - nothing like the "pimply faced geek" of your previous allusions.
Returning to the "Set of Masters" problem; I've also given that same thing some thought. What I propose is not a part of the Technological Design, but I would replace the management of the economic system with computers whenever possible. Eventually, management of the whole system could be automated too. That would at least take economics as a tool of social control out of the hands of the "masters". It's not going to eliminate all the 'masters', but it's a start. Of all economic systems this could only happen under a Technocracy as it requires a highly automated system of production and distribution. Much higher automation than our currently irrational system allows
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