Politics
Steve Keen argues engineers should run politics and elections should be scrapped
Diary of a CEO
Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!
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"I'd rather get rid of elections and have engineers running everything. They do a damn side better job than a politicians have done."
During a dispute about climate policy and global coordination, Steve Keen says he would prefer technocratic rule by engineers over electoral politics. He presents this as a response to what he describes as political failure to act on ecological constraints.
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- Diary of a CEO
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- Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!
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