Comment on Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Idk about “should” but I can tell you it might be hard to find willing ones
I’ve heard that there’s always a shortage of managers for mechanical engineering because companies want managers with engineering degrees but people with engineering degrees would rather not be managers.
Most engineers and scientists I know would love nothing more than to be able to forget about paperwork/managerial-work/human-interaction and focus solely on their projects/research.
obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
It’s exactly that. Politics isn’t about managing. This is what it’s all about: politics is about people, not being a CEO. If you are to be a CEO, you’re already a technocrat, since which CEO wouldn’t want the most technical people on the team?
The problem is twofold: finding technical solutions for society as if it was a machine limited by degrees of freedom, and thinking that the best fit people should be on ruling positions.
Politics is about people!!