Political Weirdos

You can’t be an engineer without recognizing many way things could be done better, if the people were out of the way.

This election in the US is partly about this exact question.

• US executive branch is mostly a meritocracy: people are hired to be able to do their job. Only a few at the top of each agency are political appointees whose role is to guide the agency along the political policies
• however both project 2025 and Trump vow to replace many of those people with those whose only skills are political and loyalty

If you think government works poorly now, just wait until they start replacing people who get the job done with people who worship dear leader, but don’t know what they’re doing. We see it at small scale, such as Supreme Court, but imagine hundreds of thousands.

As an engineer I would never want that Technocracy dystopia, but I sure as heck want government agencies and businesses filled with people hired for their ability to get the job done