And/or the bigger the scam.
The technocracy movement was a scam pushed by some candlestick maker, IIRC.
These guys are no different, they are even dumber for drinking their own kool aid.
Did you know that Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was part of the Technocracy Movement?
Technocracy Incorporated was not a political movement – in fact, politicians or members of political parties were not allowed to join. It was founded in New York City in 1933 as an educational and research organization promoting a radical restructuring of political, social and economic life in Canada and the United States, with science as its central operating principle. There would be no politicians, business people, money or income inequality. Those were all features of what Technocracy called the “price system,” and it would have to go.
There would be no countries called Canada or the United States, either – just one giant continental land mass called the Technate, a techno-utopia run by engineers and other “experts” in their fields. In the Technate, everyone would be well-housed and fed. All material needs would be taken care of, whether you had a job or not.
Joshua Haldeman was a leader of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada from 1936 to 1941, but eventually became disillusioned with both the organization and the country, and packed up his young family to start life anew in South Africa. In June 1971, Haldeman’s daughter Maeve gave birth to his first grandson. His name is Elon Musk.
There are a lot of similarities between the beliefs of the Technocrats and the Logical Positivists of the Vienna School. Generally, the reason why they abhorred money, prices, and market economics was because all of these things involved subjective value judgments.
If you pick up a teeny lump of gold and declare that it's worth $100, you're making a subjective appraisal of its price. If, on the other hand, you were to say that it weighed a couple grams, you would be making an observation about the object's physical properties.
The former is normative. The latter is positive.
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Generally, the goal of the Technocrats was to remove the idea of normative value from society and just run everything like a big machine, where only the physical magnitudes of everything are taken into account, and not the make-believe of subjective value.
All of this goes back to Nietzsche's observation that "God is Dead". Without the help of an external, infallible appraiser, nihilism seems inevitable. Nietzsche's argument for an "overman" was to replace God with a strong-willed person capable of creating subjective values from nothing.
People are often very dead-set against these ideas, on an emotional level, largely because of their attachment to money, but also due to their attachment to the concept of subjective value. That's where mind control comes in. The goal of the technocrats is, ultimately, to wipe out the very concept of subjective value itself and bring about a world of "pure matter", even if they have to forcibly destroy the idea within people's heads.
This isn't even really an economic problem. It's a meta-ethical and metaphysical problem.
Value is an emergent property of the mind. Philosophers have long argued about whether or not value describes anything real, however. This is because, in some sense, people still believe in mind-body dualism, where what the mind cognizes is not necessarily a part of reality, but somehow alongside and above it.
The trouble with all of this, of course, is that you can never really escape subjective value judgments at all. Technocracy, as a philosophical framework, may be able to analyze society and determine that we have enough resources to feed, clothe, and shelter the homeless. It cannot, however, provide the answer as to why we should not simply grind them up and turn them into food, without resorting to subjective statements like "because it displeases us".