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A comment on Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering. Parent comment

Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by gaius on Monday November 17, 2008 @12:35PM (#367111)
Bureaucracy is the mechanism. Technocracy is belief in government by the bureaucratic class.
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Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by nazgulnarsil on Monday November 17, 2008 @10:58PM (#367809)
I disagree, you can have a technocratic democracy, a technocratic oligarchy, technocratic monarchy etc. technocracy is just a form of meritocracy where the the definition of merit has been more strictly defined.

I think it fails to work when the metric by which technical expertise is defined is easily manipulated. Since power is involved everyone is going to constantly be looking for ways in.

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