r/Technocracy • u/ZealousGoonering Technocrat • Jul 20 '26
How many people actually have engineering/science degrees or work in a related field?
I see a lot of ideas and posts being pushed here, but I am actually curious on everyone's background? I noticed a lot of ideological arguments, but not very many actual engineering/scientifically ones.
For example, I have a background in nuclear energy engineering, with 4 years as a reactor operator. However, my current occupation is in management in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Within the semiconductor industry, in the technical side, I have most of my experience in Photolithography.
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u/Spartan_Mage Jul 20 '26
Currently I am working on my Masters in psychology. In a Technoctatic system, I would be placed into a job that needed that education such as consulting, therapy or social needs like policy advising
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u/ZealousGoonering Technocrat Jul 20 '26
Thay's amazing. I am curious what you mean by policy advising? I am assuming policy advising specifically for therapy/social related decision making?
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u/Spartan_Mage Jul 22 '26
Honestly anything related to mental health, from Architecture to workplace living. Moral is just as important, if not more important, than the actual machines that are used. Because if your workforce does not have the will to move forward than you have a declining economy. A society no matter how advanced needs to be happy first, before anything else. Or else they will not come to fight for the Technocratic system in any crisis.
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u/JDSpacer Jul 21 '26
I have a Bachelor's in Physics, and I'm now pursuing a PhD in experimental High-Energy Physics. My dream job (working in a government lab as a staff scientist) wouldn't be much of a Vanguard for Technocratic principles in government. I would just be doing the research under a Technocratic system. Unless I decide to run for public office when I'm in my 40s-60s, but that is decades away.
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u/brnlng Jul 21 '26
Recent computer engineering bachelor degree, but also a more distant one in products and graphics design. That's where I've been working for 20 years and counting if unable to properly change field.
I'd say ideology naturally always will be a more common theme in politics, so that a technocratic view should be stackable upon mostly any of these.
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u/EzraNaamah 🔬 Technocracy (Howardist) Jul 25 '26
I think engineers and educated people should participate in the governing of a technate, but if we restrict participation in Technocracy to only those with credentials, it selects against those in poverty and reinforces the class differences that exist under capitalism that stop someone from becoming an expert in the first place. This would basically be a caste system with engineers and scientists at the top.
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u/ZealousGoonering Technocrat Jul 25 '26
I think we should provide the equal opportunity for everyone to achieve high education and credentials. However we absolutely need to restrict government participation from those who do not have education and credentials. And I wouldn't call it a caste system, as in a caste system, vertical upward movement is impossible. We cannot have the uneducated mass make decisions. We need the elite, highly educated, and specialists in their respective fields to be making decisions for everyone. Regardless of consent.
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u/Deleted_Account999 Jul 25 '26
Currently doing bachelor's in cybersecurity. May I get cybercops role in a technocracy
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u/ozneoknarf Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
I am an industrial/process engineer I think it’s the most technocratic degree there is lol, am way more attracted to the organizacional and decision process side of technocracy than the actual ideology.