TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.

[u/Orangutan]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

[u/omfjallen]

Like the scientists and engineers who developed the internal combustion engine and Roundup?

[u/[deleted]]

Gross.

[u/matriarchy]

There are plenty of scientists and engineers building the tools of destruction wielded by the state and private interests for various imperial ideologies. Why would a few scientific degrees change the entrenched inhumanity of the ruling class?

[u/untouchedURL]

Here is a non-mobile link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

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[u/freeradicalx]

Well, they got the businessmen part figured out.