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Re:New study compares growing corn for energy to solar produ... by robocat on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:27PM (#47869512)
Many of us have personal experience watching good engineers become bad managers.

Politics is harder than it looks.

In theory an engineering background should help make better politicians. In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.

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Re:New study compares growing corn for energy to solar produ... by jqpabc123 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:49PM (#47869718)
In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.

In practice, China is very different from the USA. For example, China doesn't have open presidential elections.

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Re:New study compares growing corn for energy to solar produ... by satvikpendem on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:16PM (#47871934)
My statement was descriptive not prescriptive. I make no claims about, in a vacuum or for all situations, whether a technocrat is better than one who is not, just that many of their government is made up of them and they seem to be doing well.
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