That reminds me how people say china is a nation run by engineers and the US is a nation run by lawyers. I think both have its pros and cons but just regarding how much shit a nation gets done, my money is gonna be on engineers for sure.

That being said, I wonder if there is a case to be made that for there to be more social & policy interventions that actually are evidence-based and more rigorous, do we need to have technocrats that are not beholden to the short-termism of the democratic political system? But wouldn't they just accumulate too much power without enough accountability? Who will watch the watchers?