Technocratic movement

:This article is a movement supporting the use of technology to enhance society. See Technocrat (disambiguation) for other definitions.

Design of a technate

A technate, the so-called name of a technocratic society, consists of many ideas that are explained in detail below.

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Division of Political and Technical Decision

All decisions involving the production and distribution of goods and services are determined by a technically gifted structure. The bottom-up structure of this technical administrative body ensures that those who are most qualified belong in the right position. If a person in a high position does not perform their duties well, the persons working directly below can remove them from their position. The goals of the technical administrative body are to provide and maintain efficiency of the industrial production, while continuing to improve and better that system.

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Political decisions will be made by a democratically elected leader. The democratic side of technocracy does not deal with physical or scientific decisions. Instead, leaders would deal with moral issues, the design of the technate?s flag, etc. It should also be noted that the economy will be controlled democratically. The population of the Technate would go about their business as consumers, spending their energy credits as they see fit at conveniently located distribution centers or through online catalogues. This would be the democracy in action; all citizens decide what they want produced and what to consume. Technocracy can be summed up, in this sense, to be the most direct form of control of consumption feasible and practical.

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Elimination of Money: The Era of Energy Accounting

A primary difference of a technocratic society would be the elimination of the price-system. Since such a simple change would have far-reaching effects on the global economy, the technocrats state they will wait until the price-system fails before implementing their system.

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Technocrats state that technology should be used for mankind's benefit. Under the price-system, if a factory that employed 300 fully automates itself and only one employee is needed to inspect the machinery, the amount of money going to consumers drops, as shown by current trends in productivity and real wages. Technocrats argue that technology should reduce the burden of human toil in the populace, and technological displacement should result in a significant reduction of working hours. Money and the price-system, however, stand in the way.

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An energy-credit is a hypothetical unit of currency used in a technate. Unlike traditional money, energy-credits cannot be saved or earned, only distributed evenly among a populace. The amount of credit given to each citizen would be calculated by determining the total productive capacity of the technate and dividing it equally. The reason for the use of energy-credits serves to ensure equality among the technate's citizenry as well as prohibit spending that is beyond the productive capacity of the technocracy.

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It should be noted that energy-accounting is not rationing; it is a way to distribute an abundance and track demand. Never before on the planet has there existed such a system, but it would be similar to giving every person on the continent a billion dollars; even though everyone receives equality in terms of the energy they get, it doesn't matter because everyone gets so much. Technocrats predict that at today's rates of energy conversion, no person will rationally be able to spend all their energy credits.

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The system is usually referred to as energy accounting.

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• Article on Energy Accounting