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"But another way of saying 'technocrat' is 'someone who is very good at their job'."
@pluralistic, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
I don't think that word means what you think it means Maybe you meant 'bureaucrat'?
A technocrat is someone with power in a technocracy. Like Melon Husk or Xi Jinping. Or Tony Blair, see the Adam Curtis series The Trap.
"But another way of saying 'technocrat' is 'someone who is very good at their job'."
@pluralistic, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
I don't think that word means what you think it means Maybe you meant 'bureaucrat'?
A technocrat is someone with power in a technocracy. Like Melon Husk or Xi Jinping. Or Tony Blair, see the Adam Curtis series The Trap.
Every time I think I've trawled the depths of how venal capitalists can be ...
"It turns out that halal cart vendors each have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to economic parasites who've cornered the market on food cart licenses, which they rent out at exorbitant markups to vendors, who pass those costs on to New Yorkers every lunchtime."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
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