Do we have any examples of societies or governments ran by humanities people? I at least don't know any country ran by tech execs. If we can find examples of both, then we can compare and see.
That's just the Prime Minister. One person being from tech background doesn't make it a system ran by techs if the rest are of some other viewpoint or profession. So we would need examples of both governments ran by a group of humanities people having the "real power" and compare it to a government ran by a group of technical/engineering people.
You said the current UK government is mostly Philosophy background people. So how would you rate its performance?
I was about to add if Law is considered part of humanities. Many of the better governments have been founded by law background people, so I'd say that is at least a data point.
Tech exec's don't always veer STEM, eg. Musk is a Business Grad who took "Physics for Business Grad" bridging courses, Paul Graham is a Philosophy grad.
China is said to be top heavy in actual STEM graduates at the party committee five year plan level.
A number of countries are top heavy in politico's with a formal Law degree, eg. Australia.
China inherited the dictatorship from communists. I am not sure if we can blame the dictatorial rule to the STEM people. But still, China seems quite good otherwise.
I think Law could be a example in favor of humanities, as eg many of the founders of the American government were from a background in law.
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The current PM has an English degree.
The last one to have a scientific background was Thatcher.
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You said the current UK government is mostly Philosophy background people. So how would you rate its performance?
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This applies to many of the UK governments since WWII.
I suspect most ministers have been humanities graduates. STEM is a very small minority.
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China is said to be top heavy in actual STEM graduates at the party committee five year plan level.
A number of countries are top heavy in politico's with a formal Law degree, eg. Australia.
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I think Law could be a example in favor of humanities, as eg many of the founders of the American government were from a background in law.
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