[gruez]

>a technocratic solution that meets the needs of the burgeoning disenfranchised population is required because the degree of inequality that we're dealing with is creating severe social conflicts

I'm sure that the non-elected technocrats wouldn't be susceptible to the "represented by millionaires" problem that you bemoaned about earlier.

[colechristensen]

Exactly. Technocrats are just oligarchs branding themselves as smarter than everybody else.

[snedfree]

i'd be much happier to have healthcare policy be shaped by family practice doctors than by parliamentarians and bill gates