#technocrats — Public Fediverse posts

“As per James Scott’s #SeeingLikeaState, the problems begin when #technocrats begin to treat #humanbeings and the #complexsocieties they create as though they were simplified “standard cells” that can readily be re-arranged in more optimal patterns.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mitcsfviyc2i

Memory in the Meme

We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption. They tell us we are “consuming content.” But they are wrong. When we pause on a meme, that pixelated artifact of cultural shorthand, we are not consuming. We are remembering.

The meme is often dismissed by the serious-minded as the detritus of a distracted generation. It is seen as a low-resolution joke, a lazy way to communicate a thought that should have been an essay. But as someone who has spent a lifetime studying the intersection of the “Human Meme” and the hard realities of communication, from the stageboards of Broadway to the silent, proximal grammar of American Sign Language, I tell you that the meme is something far more curious. It is a vessel of containment. It is the modern amber in which we trap the mosquito of our collective emotion, preserving the DNA of a specific moment in time that would otherwise evaporate into the ether of the forgotten.

Consider the “visual vernacular” of the internet. In American Sign Language, we talk about the power of the classifier—a handshape that represents a class of objects, moving through space to tell a story that words cannot capture. The meme operates on this same frequency. It is a classifier for the soul. When you share an image of a skeleton sitting on a park bench waiting for a reply, you are not just making a joke about patience. You are transmitting a complex, heavy emotional state—the specific, crushing weight of being ignored—without uttering a syllable. You are using a shared visual language to contain a feeling that is too large and too messy to be constrained by the rigid geometry of the English alphabet.

There is a “braided prairie” quality to this phenomenon. Growing up in Nebraska, I learned that the land remembers everything. The wind that cuts through the tall grass carries the same dust that settled on the pioneers. The meme is our digital prairie. It is a vast, open space where millions of individual blades of grass, our individual anxieties, our triumphs, our absurdities, weave together to form a cohesive landscape. When a meme goes viral, it is not because it is clever. It is because it has tapped into the groundwater of that prairie. It has found a common root. It allows us to stand in the middle of the digital nowhere and say, “I am not alone in this feeling. You are here, too.”

This is the function of memory in the meme: it fights the “cultural instinct to forget.” The machine wants us to forget. The algorithm prioritizes the new, the fresh, the “trending.” It wants us to be in a constant state of forward motion because a person who stops to remember is a person who stops clicking ads. But the meme acts as a brake. It is an anchor. It drags the past, a screenshot from a 1999 cartoon, a blurry photo from a 2012 news broadcast, into the present and forces us to reckon with it. It creates a loop of “static time,” freezing a reaction in perpetuity.

I have written before about the tragedy of the “Original Cast Recording”—how it captures a living, breathing theatrical performance and freezes it into a definitive, unchangeable document. The meme does something similar, but with a crucial difference. The cast recording demands you listen to it as it was; the meme invites you to remix it as you are. It is a living archive. It allows us to take the memory of the past and overlay it with the context of the present. It is a collaboration between the dead (the original context) and the living (the current caption).

However, we must be wary of the container itself. We are building our “palace of memory” on rented land. We entrust our cultural heritage to platforms that view our memories as data points to be mined, not treasures to be kept. We are facing a crisis of digital preservation. The “Link Rot” of the web is real. The servers will eventually be wiped. The Technocrats will pull the plug when the storage costs outweigh the ad revenue. And when that happens, what becomes of the memory?

This is why the act of sharing a meme is, in itself, an act of defiance. It is a way of keeping the signal alive. We are the “Human Meme.” We are the biological substrate that keeps these ideas breathing. When you save a meme to your phone, you are acting as an archivist. You are curating the museum of your own existence. You are saying that this specific collision of image and text, this specific containment of irony and truth, matters enough to be saved from the flow.

We must not mistake the trivial for the temporary. A joke can last a thousand years if it touches a truth that the history books are too polite to record. The meme is the folklore of the future. It is the cave painting of the twenty-first century, scratched not into stone, but into the liquid light of the screen. It proves we were here. It proves we saw the absurdity of the world, the horror and the beauty of it, and instead of screaming into the void, we chose to contain it. We chose to frame it. And we chose to share it.

So, the next time you hesitate to post that silly image, remember the weight of what you are doing. You are not just adding noise to the signal. You are preserving the hum of the human condition. You are ensuring that the memory survives the moment. You are telling the future that we were complex, and we were funny, and we were here.

#neostoicism is a mutation of ancient aretaic virtues toward service of the #technocracy.
It is #managerial #ethics disguised as #virtue.
Rather than learning actual self-discipline, it is subsumption for #productivity.
Instead of accepting what can't be changed, it is excuses for collective responsibilities.
Instead of self-mastery it is optimizing performance.

The neo-stocism comes from #redpill "father figures": #JordanPeterson, #ElonMusk, #AndrewTate, #DanBilzerian, #JackDonovan, #JockoWillink, #DavidGoggins, #CurtisYarvin, and #RyanHoliday . The relationship between this, nazi neoclassicism, and modern fascism are not accidents.

A productive stoic is an ideal subject of work and rule: self-monitoring, and compliant.

#stoicism #technocrats

#neostoicism is a mutation of ancient aretaic virtues toward service of the #technocracy.
It is #managerial #ethics disguised as #virtue.
Rather than learning actual self-discipline, it is subsumption for #productivity.
Instead of accepting what can't be changed, it is excuses for collective responsibilities.
Instead of self-mastery it is optimizing performance.

The neo-stocism comes from #redpill "father figures": #JordanPeterson, #ElonMusk, #AndrewTate, #DanBilzerian, #JackDonovan, #JockoWillink, #DavidGoggins, #CurtisYarvin, and #RyanHoliday . The relationship between this, nazi neoclassicism, and modern fascism are not accidents.

A productive stoic is an ideal subject of work and rule: self-monitoring, and compliant.

#stoicism #technocrats

I, for one, am sick of the beholden #technocrats rescuing #Trump from him destructive #EconomicPolicies.

#WallSt indexes post record closing highs again, with #Nvidia, #tech shares higher.

#resist #boycott #conspirators
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-futures-inch-lower-after-rally-markets-await-clarity-trump-visa-policy-2025-09-22/

I, for one, am sick of the beholden #technocrats rescuing #Trump from him destructive #EconomicPolicies.

#WallSt indexes post record closing highs again, with #Nvidia, #tech shares higher.

#resist #boycott #conspirators
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-futures-inch-lower-after-rally-markets-await-clarity-trump-visa-policy-2025-09-22/

"Central bankers are not detached, objective technocrats, but powerful political actors, whose decisions favour the powerful, and hurt the weak."

Ann Pettifor: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/technocrats-as-handmaidens-to-authoritarianism

#interestRates #centralBanks #Fed #money #credit #economics #FederalReserve #technique #technocrats #technocracy #yields #economists #monetaryPolicy #budget #debt #deficits #Crimea #moneyCreation #monetaryCreation #exploitation

"Central bankers are not detached, objective technocrats, but powerful political actors, whose decisions favour the powerful, and hurt the weak."

Ann Pettifor: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/technocrats-as-handmaidens-to-authoritarianism

#interestRates #centralBanks #Fed #money #credit #economics #FederalReserve #technique #technocrats #technocracy #yields #economists #monetaryPolicy #budget #debt #deficits #Crimea #moneyCreation #monetaryCreation #exploitation

"Mr. #Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as #technocracy.

"Leading #technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a #technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.DkY0.xuUNqvaLaS8R&smid=url-share
#USpol #technosolutionism #oligarchy #TechBros #techOligarchs #FarRight #SiliconValleyRight #ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman

"Mr. #Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as #technocracy.

"Leading #technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a #technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.DkY0.xuUNqvaLaS8R&smid=url-share
#USpol #technosolutionism #oligarchy #TechBros #techOligarchs #FarRight #SiliconValleyRight #ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

#stasi #google #meta #AI #manufacuredConsent #micromanagement #CambrisgeAnalytical #Brexit #technocrats #SLAPP #DataHarvester #Abuse #digitalWitchburning #SurveillanceIndustry #SocialContracts

A 1930s movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal had some familiar sounding ideas....Read More: https://tcnv.link/UsPebxF

#ElonMusk #Technocrats #Greenland #Canada

A 1930s movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal had some familiar sounding ideas....Read More: https://tcnv.link/UsPebxF

#ElonMusk #Technocrats #Greenland #Canada

“What are the ramifications?

Actual ROLF. Are you fucking kidding me? Those with power have proven time and time again in this last decade that they're not accountable. The answer to no one. There's no ramifications. None.”
- Remy Sharp

#AI #technocrats #piracy

https://remysharp.com/2025/03/22/the-day-piracy-changed

“What are the ramifications?

Actual ROLF. Are you fucking kidding me? Those with power have proven time and time again in this last decade that they're not accountable. The answer to no one. There's no ramifications. None.”
- Remy Sharp

#AI #technocrats #piracy

https://remysharp.com/2025/03/22/the-day-piracy-changed

#Bezos ended the #WashingtonPost‘s decades-long tradition of presidential endorsements—& scrapped a planned #endorsement of #KamalaHarris—last fall, & he appeared alongside other #tech *leaders* [#technocrats / #oligarchs] at Trump’s inauguration…. He also donated $1M to #Trump’s inaugural cmte.

#MafiaState #kleptocracy #FourthEstate #journalism #USpol

#Bezos ended the #WashingtonPost‘s decades-long tradition of presidential endorsements—& scrapped a planned #endorsement of #KamalaHarris—last fall, & he appeared alongside other #tech *leaders* [#technocrats / #oligarchs] at Trump’s inauguration…. He also donated $1M to #Trump’s inaugural cmte.

#MafiaState #kleptocracy #FourthEstate #journalism #USpol

回复提问：「德国选举中是否有与中国变革直接相关的议题看点」

目前中国异议群体中流行的，不论是粉丝团/网红领袖模式、还是政治技术解决方案，在选举政治中的前景都不乐观，甚至不如火热的“灵修团”现象 - 不是玩笑 …

🧬 区块：https://www.notion.so/iyouport/iYouPort-Initiatives-Tactics-Phase-I-aa93a0b99cb94c81aa3177827785beb2?pvs=4#17034ca2d46d819dae76d7d3843d2f99

如果上面链接没有直接转入正确位置，请手动向下翻阅，找到“Notes”部分。

#选举政治 #直接民主 #中国 #德国 #意识形态 #技术官僚 #electoralpolitics #directdemocracy #China #Germany #ideology #technocrats

回复提问：「德国选举中是否有与中国变革直接相关的议题看点」

目前中国异议群体中流行的，不论是粉丝团/网红领袖模式、还是政治技术解决方案，在选举政治中的前景都不乐观，甚至不如火热的“灵修团”现象 - 不是玩笑 …

🧬 区块：https://www.notion.so/iyouport/iYouPort-Initiatives-Tactics-Phase-I-aa93a0b99cb94c81aa3177827785beb2?pvs=4#17034ca2d46d819dae76d7d3843d2f99

如果上面链接没有直接转入正确位置，请手动向下翻阅，找到“Notes”部分。

#选举政治 #直接民主 #中国 #德国 #意识形态 #技术官僚 #electoralpolitics #directdemocracy #China #Germany #ideology #technocrats

I'm making more #typos lately on #mobile...

Either I'm just #tired,

my #thumbs have grown wider (no I'm not a #console #gamer)

or a #secret #cabal of #technocrats has made the #keyboard keys *slightly* smaller....

Must be the last one...!

Please don't work for Larry.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

#billionaire #surveillance #technocrats #TechWontSaveUs #AI #AIIsGoingGreat #1984 #Fahrenheit451 #SmartCity

Please don't work for Larry.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

#billionaire #surveillance #technocrats #TechWontSaveUs #AI #AIIsGoingGreat #1984 #Fahrenheit451 #SmartCity

EVERY NOMINEE
IS A DISTRACTION
https://tech.lgbt/@toze/113477706162164651

i need people to understand #Project2025 as an eschatological manifesto and #evangelicals, #zionists, #techbros and #technocrats as death cults.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology

once you understand #Project2025 as the accelerationist manual for the #apocalypse, then you'll understand the Heritage Foundation isn't interested in the clowns, only the clown car.

their real picks are & will be working in the shadows.

EVERY NOMINEE
IS A DISTRACTION
https://tech.lgbt/@toze/113477706162164651

i need people to understand #Project2025 as an eschatological manifesto and #evangelicals, #zionists, #techbros and #technocrats as death cults.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology

once you understand #Project2025 as the accelerationist manual for the #apocalypse, then you'll understand the Heritage Foundation isn't interested in the clowns, only the clown car.

their real picks are & will be working in the shadows.

#technocracy should not be seen as a political movement. #Democracy decides what should be done, and #technocrats recommend which should be the best paths to reach the goal

The latest version of Windows 11 puts Microsoft's Copilot on your PC.

If you don't want Copilot unfortunately you can't remove it, but you can disable it. Full instructions for disabling Copilot in this thread over on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/smokepaw.bsky.social/post/3klob2dn7ym27

#Microsoft #Windows #Copilot #ML #AI #Privacy #Dystopia #Freedom #Technocrats #BigTech #OpenAI

The latest version of Windows 11 puts Microsoft's Copilot on your PC.

If you don't want Copilot unfortunately you can't remove it, but you can disable it. Full instructions for disabling Copilot in this thread over on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/smokepaw.bsky.social/post/3klob2dn7ym27

#Microsoft #Windows #Copilot #ML #AI #Privacy #Dystopia #Freedom #Technocrats #BigTech #OpenAI

Our #institutions are broken because we outsourced their feed and care to #technocrats

Our #institutions are broken because we outsourced their feed and care to #technocrats

Damn, I forgot to drop my SoundCloud. Here's my blog. I write about #tech, #design, #technocrats, #socialmedia and other stuff. Oh, and #Meta. I for sure write about them.

You may have seen a post or two on hacker news or Reddit. And I once trolled Rudy Giuliani so hard on Twitter that it made the news cycle. Fun times.

Anyway, if you do cool stuff and want me to follow you, just ask! I want to follow people who do cool stuff and things.

https://fromjason.xyz/

Damn, I forgot to drop my SoundCloud. Here's my blog. I write about #tech, #design, #technocrats, #socialmedia and other stuff. Oh, and #Meta. I for sure write about them.

You may have seen a post or two on hacker news or Reddit. And I once trolled Rudy Giuliani so hard on Twitter that it made the news cycle. Fun times.

Anyway, if you do cool stuff and want me to follow you, just ask! I want to follow people who do cool stuff and things.

https://fromjason.xyz/

The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia:

"California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments."

Remember when we collectively agreed that our worst fear was a Trump who spoke like Obama? Yeah, I think those are just #technocrats.

#LinksFromJason

https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession

The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia:

"California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments."

Remember when we collectively agreed that our worst fear was a Trump who spoke like Obama? Yeah, I think those are just #technocrats.

#LinksFromJason

https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession

PS:

thanks to whomever pointed out the Techbro Manifesto comes with its own illuminati goatse and everything.

so we now know from where these Segway Mussolinis pull out their ideas

#techOptismism #technocrats #fascism

PS:

thanks to whomever pointed out the Techbro Manifesto comes with its own illuminati goatse and everything.

so we now know from where these Segway Mussolinis pull out their ideas

#techOptismism #technocrats #fascism

"As originally conceived, there would be no democracy in the Technate — no elections, no parliaments — because, the #Technocrats claimed, even in democracies, questions of fundamental importance are never submitted to popular vote. Instead, there would be a single disciplined organization under one jurisdiction that would be responsible for the smooth functioning of society."

The Last Utopians - Canada's History
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-last-utopians

"As originally conceived, there would be no democracy in the Technate — no elections, no parliaments — because, the #Technocrats claimed, even in democracies, questions of fundamental importance are never submitted to popular vote. Instead, there would be a single disciplined organization under one jurisdiction that would be responsible for the smooth functioning of society."

The Last Utopians - Canada's History
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-last-utopians

@strypey
The title says "Green Reactionaries" but the term #ecoFascist to us implies a govt aligning with #bigTech, maybe also to repress and marginise those who are not aligned with a policy.

Its so possible to have corporatist, environmentalist #technocrats that over the past decade we've seen them advertising unrealistic #technofixes on #Fakebook, to attract govt backing. We could all be living on the ocean, or in "#smartCities" or whatever nonsense.

Obviously anything can be made fascist.

@strypey
The title says "Green Reactionaries" but the term #ecoFascist to us implies a govt aligning with #bigTech, maybe also to repress and marginise those who are not aligned with a policy.

Its so possible to have corporatist, environmentalist #technocrats that over the past decade we've seen them advertising unrealistic #technofixes on #Fakebook, to attract govt backing. We could all be living on the ocean, or in "#smartCities" or whatever nonsense.

Obviously anything can be made fascist.

#BigTech #Billionares #SiliconValley #Technocrats: "I call them the Technocrats, in recognition of the influence of the technocracy movement, founded in the 1930s by Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman. The Technocrats make up a kind of interlocking directorate of Silicon Valley, each investing in or sitting on the boards of the others’ companies. Their vast digital domain controls your personal information; affects how billions of people live, work, and love; and sows online chaos, inciting mob violence and sparking runs on stocks. These four men have long been regarded as technologically progressive heroes, but they are actually part of a broader antidemocratic, authoritarian turn within the tech world, deeply invested in preserving the status quo and in keeping their market-leadership positions or near-monopolies—and their multi-billion-dollar fortunes secure from higher taxes. (“Competition is for suckers,” Thiel once posited.)

Indeed, they are American oligarchs, controlling online access for billions of users on Facebook, Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including 80 percent of the US population. Moreover, from the outside, they appear to be more interested in replacing our current reality—and our economic system, imperfect as it is—with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable, which, if it comes to pass, they will control."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

#BigTech #Billionares #SiliconValley #Technocrats: "I call them the Technocrats, in recognition of the influence of the technocracy movement, founded in the 1930s by Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman. The Technocrats make up a kind of interlocking directorate of Silicon Valley, each investing in or sitting on the boards of the others’ companies. Their vast digital domain controls your personal information; affects how billions of people live, work, and love; and sows online chaos, inciting mob violence and sparking runs on stocks. These four men have long been regarded as technologically progressive heroes, but they are actually part of a broader antidemocratic, authoritarian turn within the tech world, deeply invested in preserving the status quo and in keeping their market-leadership positions or near-monopolies—and their multi-billion-dollar fortunes secure from higher taxes. (“Competition is for suckers,” Thiel once posited.)

Indeed, they are American oligarchs, controlling online access for billions of users on Facebook, Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including 80 percent of the US population. Moreover, from the outside, they appear to be more interested in replacing our current reality—and our economic system, imperfect as it is—with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable, which, if it comes to pass, they will control."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

#Oligarchs #Technocrats #Technodeterminism #Autocracy #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MarkZuckerberg #MarcAndreessen
Vanity Fair:
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

"In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The End of Reality,’ the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

#Oligarchs #Technocrats #Technodeterminism #Autocracy #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MarkZuckerberg #MarcAndreessen
Vanity Fair:
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

"In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The End of Reality,’ the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

More reason to be on a federated platform. We must stop giving our futures to megalomaniacs with huge purses.

#transhumanism
#technocrats
#BigData
#YouAreTheProductTheyAreSelling

https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/22/how-musk-thiel-zuckerberg-and-andreessen-four-billionaire-techno-oligarchs-are-creating-an-alternate-autocratic-reality/

Welp, it’s official.

I’ve requested account deletion on both of the #Meta platforms I use, #Facebook and #Instagram. Of course they make it difficult (30-day retention policy you can’t override where if you log in at all your account is revived), and the option to delete was obfuscated and took 10+ clicks to confirm once it was found.

#X / #Twitter is deleted ☑️
#Meta is pending deletion ☑️

I’m now a #Mastodon and #Pixelfed #Fediverse king. 💅🏻 🌈 :Fire_Pride:

Suck it, #Musk, #Dorsey, and #Zuckerberg, you #Technocrats

Welp, it’s official.

I’ve requested account deletion on both of the #Meta platforms I use, #Facebook and #Instagram. Of course they make it difficult (30-day retention policy you can’t override where if you log in at all your account is revived), and the option to delete was obfuscated and took 10+ clicks to confirm once it was found.

#X / #Twitter is deleted ☑️
#Meta is pending deletion ☑️

I’m now a #Mastodon and #Pixelfed #Fediverse king. 💅🏻 🌈 :Fire_Pride:

Suck it, #Musk, #Dorsey, and #Zuckerberg, you #Technocrats

@caitp I just started the process of exorcising anything #Chromium based from my browsing. I don’t trust #Technocrats with my #Privacy anymore. I used to love Chrome, and I loved Edge. But I’m tired of being monetized.

Today’s #ClassWar Is #1Percent Versus People Just Below Them
#America has, roughly, 3 classes. The top are today’s great proprietors, top 1% owns over half of US corporate #stock. People just below them are no longer attendants and retainers but #technocrats, the rest of top #10percent — i.e., the #9percent — owns almost all the rest of U.S. stock. Then there’s everyone else , no longer tenant farmers but they still have to get up every day and clock in to own possessions
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/16/class-warfare-1-percent-technocrat/

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-11-2021/in-a-captured-state

How do we deal with the technocratic elite in a high-tech civilisation? They are indispensable, but just like any other ruling class they become entitled and blind to everyone else. Today the #technocrats tend to vote Left, but only because the Left today is about ideas rather than action. (BTW, if you are reading this you are quite possibly one of them)

@junesim63 #Technocracy and #democracy are fundamentally opposed. Technocracy always becomes #oligarchy with a secret police to enforce its out-of-touch edicts. But OTOH #technocrats are by definition the people who actually know how to steer the ship. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

A good FT longread by Max Seddon and Polina Ivanova about how #Russia's #technocrats (PRIVATELY horrified by the #war in #Ukraine) enabling the economy to survive #sanctions
https://www.ft.com/content/fe5fe0ed-e5d4-474e-bb5a-10c9657285d2?shareType=nongift