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They epitomized the joke about the photocopier repair tech, who comes into the office, delivers a swift kick to the xerox machine, and hands you a bill for $75.
"$75 for kicking the photocopier?"
"No, it's $5 to kick the photocopier, and $70 for knowing where to kick it."
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff
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One of Biden's best photocopier kickers was Lina Khan. She embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public. Technocrats get a bad name, because they tend to be empty suits like Pete Buttigieg, who either didn't know what powers he had, or lacked the courage (or desire) to wield them:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge
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But another way of saying "technocrat" is "someone who is very good at their job." And that's Khan.
You'll never guess what Khan is doing now: she's co-chairing Zohran Mamdani's transition team!
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But another way of saying "technocrat" is "someone who is very good at their job." And that's Khan.
You'll never guess what Khan is doing now: she's co-chairing Zohran Mamdani's transition team!
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Khan's role in the Mamdani administration will be familiar to those of us who cheered her on at the Federal Trade Commission: she is metabolizing the rules that define the actions that mayors are allowed to take, figuring out how to use those actions to improve the lives of working New Yorkers, and making a plan to combine the former with the latter to make a real difference:
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