Is Technocracy a socialist or democratic system?
Although elements of both socialist and democratic systems might be found in Technocracy’s design, this should not be taken as Technocracy being similar to either. While it is both easy and common to want to group Technocracy together with more familiar political and economic systems, this would be a mistake. The simple reason for this is because Technocracy is far too different from any other social system ever devised. It cannot be grouped with other political systems because Technocracy does not involve politics. Technocracy is about the scientific control of technology, not a philosophical method of controlling people. Likewise, Technocracy cannot be grouped with other economic systems because Technocracy relies on the existence of an established, technological abundance, whereas all other systems, i.e. “Price Systems”, all rely on the existence of a natural state of scarcity. Therefore, we find that Technocracy is not, and cannot be easily compared to, either a socialist or democr
