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Because the politicians blocked their attempts to educate people and spread their ideas. That much hasn't changed at all, it sedms

I can see why this sounds tempting given the kind of politicians we have in most places, BUT scientists are usually experts in a very narrow field, and said expertise - even if the methods and general mindset work outside of it - doesn't necessarily translate to politics. So yeah, I understand wanting better politicians, but microbiologists are very good at microbiology and, well, passable at everything else (Source: Sister is a microbiologist)

This would just have been replaced with other fat cats and businesses. On the other hand, I would wholeheartedly embrace a technocracy

nah, we'd have ended up with 500 elon musks pretending to be engineers just to sqeeze out a little more of our blood and sweat

Because this is also the logic that got Trump elected.

well they tried it with Trump. He was a "good business man" and a "disrupter". Turns out we actually need politicians for those jobs.

You seriously think scientists and engineers are less corruptible than politicians? Sweet summer child...

Ultimately would of resulted in higher productivity because they would of made decisions based on facts, statistics, and logic as opposed to politicians who base their decisions on bribes and self service.

Have you ever met an engineer?

Are you familiar with human beings?

Scientists can be politicians but most choose not to. Which would you rather do? A) Spend your days on a boat in the N Atlantic studying the Gulf stream or spend your day arguing about tax rates on commercial zoned real estate?

How naive. You think Musk and Bezos would not have been included in that group? Great technical innovators. But power corrupts, they became unstable, just with financial power, imagine if they'd been given great political power too. It would have been worse than Trump.

Remember "Follow the science"?

Now the technocrats ARE the fat cats.

No, the last people you want in politics are scientists. They are never happy and will tinker and fiddle and change things faster than the great unwashed can follow. Life will be a nightmare

Actually they came to power and ended with the 2008 financial crisis , until then we haven't recovered yet , it could got worse , like it happened in third world economies.

Or we would have just changed the source of the fat cats.

You answered your own question.

To be fair..they qualified it with..the expertise to run the economy..

Scientific need money to be sponsored. Money in this amounts doesn't come from 5€ donations

With the advent of A.I. there will be no need for high paid CEOs and the like. The efficiency and organizational abilities of A.I. will make it so no company will be able to afford to ignore it. There will still be a need for workers/technicians ... but not for middle management and above.

I’m not old enough to vote but I’ll join you!

it's called White Hat Hacking

It's called a White Hat hacker.

It’s actually relatively common, it’s called White Hat Hacking

We need Alik Hardison

Or a 'non profit' mega church

That's like saying why doesn't Nissan de ice the roads. It's not really their job. If anything router companies should patch their vulnerabilities better.

One reason I avoided German Walmart right from the start was that they tried to manipulate the private lifes of their employees by forbidding them to have romantic relationships with other employees - even if this was not displayed by the partners during work. The audacity of this concern to actually believe they had any right to dictate what an employee does in their free-time and who they are dating! Simply repulsive! (Edit: autocorrect turned "simply" into "dimple")

If someone would pack my bags I wouldn't like that either. Besides it's much easier to do it myself.

Your Walmart staff actually HELPS you? Ours makes us checkout ourselves; they're just there to make sure you get arrested if you forget to scan an item!

In USA, i have had to be really firm with " i will do it myself".

Interesting...I like people packing my bags because I can zone out for a few minutes and it's pretty much the only time all week that someone else does something for me (well, in person at least). But when there's no one to do it I don't mind packing them myself at all.

Where else other than the US is this a thing?

That's true. Don't touch my stuff!

I don't like it either. Not because I don't like people touching my stuff or whatever, but because they always seem to screw up. I don't put eggs on top of bread, or one cold item in a bag of canned goods that I won't put away for a week. I was taught how to pack when I was a cashier, and I only got better when I was buying my own stuff. I don't think they train people anymore...

As a german, I can confirm. We pack our own bags and you get yelled at for trying to stop us. And we hate teamwork and we’re grumpy 24/7 so that’s that for smiling at customers.

That is odd, though. Who is so lazy they can’t pack their own bags?

That would apply in Denmark as well. I hate it when other people pack groceries and whatever else I have bought. It's never how I would have packed it. And I pack it how it interrupts my mind the least (neurodiverse person here).

Damn, I must have German ancestry......

What's the big deal. They're trained to help and they know not to put certain items together or crush stuff.

Yes. Don't touch my bag, please! Also, if I don't know you, don't smile at me.

Then use the self check out lanes. Problem solved.

Europeans are not lazy. Plus, I want to bag my groceries myself.

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I don't blame them one day. I really think it's disgusting and lazy, that people can't package their own groceries. Ridiculous