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We ask, what's the problem with technocrats?

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I'm your host, Pete Davis. We begin with segment one. Why is this sometimes bad?

In the recurring segment, why is this sometimes bad?

We discuss how something that some people

think is an unalloyed good can be sometimes bad. In this week's edition of why is this

sometimes bad, we discuss technocrats. What do we mean when we call someone a technocrat?

Why do we sometimes use it as a pejorative? Isn't expertise good? What is the alternative to experts? What role should expertise play on the left? Panel, the question is, why are technocrats sometimes bad? Let's begin with definitions, though. Can anyone tell me what a technocrat is?

So for me, at least part of the problem with technocrats does start with how we talk about

what makes someone an expert, right? Because I actually have less of a problem with people who

are experts in something proposing policy solutions or even managing policy initiatives. But the way that

we define experts right now, in my understanding of this, is people who have sort of highly, are

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