>maybe a benevolent billionaire class will be more likely to 'fix' society more than our 'elected' representatives can
1. they're literally not
2. theoretically, representatives are representative
if you're concerned about someone's choices, i think you have a better chance at influencing the choices of someone who is at least nominally and maybe actually accountable to you.
the talk is about material allocations. it's actually pretty easy to just deliberately change material allocations, we're doing it all the time. having an opinion on how we do that is not some kind of engineering.
the accountability within our current power structure is quite debatable, but you can change that too.
1. they're literally not
2. theoretically, representatives are representative
if you're concerned about someone's choices, i think you have a better chance at influencing the choices of someone who is at least nominally and maybe actually accountable to you.
the talk is about material allocations. it's actually pretty easy to just deliberately change material allocations, we're doing it all the time. having an opinion on how we do that is not some kind of engineering.
the accountability within our current power structure is quite debatable, but you can change that too.