Whilst it seems like a good idea to have academics run government, history has shown that countries run by engineers and scientists tend to end up with some great roads and dams, but failing economically and socially in almost every other way.

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itscomplexetc 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A bit like the engineers themselves.

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Ampersander 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The politburo in the Soviet Union was stacked with engineers and it didn't work out that well.

	▲	tgv 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Idk which period you're referring to, but for a long time, the Politburo was nothing but Stalin's mouth piece, as was the Central Committee and the rest of the Party, ad they ruled through very hard repression. That puts a long-lasting kind of mark on a society that you can't engineer yourself out of. So I'd argue it's not much of an argument.