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| The term '''Technate''' was originated by ], in the early 1930's to describe the region over which a technocratic society would operate. All resources and industry of this land region would be used to provide an abundance of goods and services, within an ecological context, to its citizens under the program ].<ref>http://ecen.com/eee9/ecoterme.htm Economy and Thermodynamics</ref> | |||
| According to technocrats, a Technate cannot simply be set up anywhere like a modern-day country; it has several requirements that must be met in order for it to operate. | |||
| #There must be sufficient '']s'' to create an '']''. | |||
| #There must be an existing '']'' and '']'' base from which to create the Technate. | |||
| #There must be a sufficient amount of trained personnel for its operation. | |||
| According to Technocracy Inc., presently, the ]n continent is known to be able to fully meet the basic requirements needed to operate a Technate, although other land areas could attempt it, with varying results, depending on the required conditions of energy conversion<ref>http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biophysical_economics | |||
| Biophysical economics - Encyclopedia of Earth</ref>. The design is intended to transform North American society, and end the current ].<ref>The Energy Certificate. An article on Energy Accounting as proposed by Technocracy Inc.</ref> | |||
| ===The North American Technate=== | |||
| The '''North American Technate''' is a design and plan to transform North America into a Technocratic society. The plan includes using ]'s rich deposits of ]s and ] as a complement to the United States's ] and ] capacity (Many of the details of this plan are presented in the ''Technocracy Study Course'') the precedent document of the ]. | |||
| The North America Technate would be composed of all of ], ], the ], parts of ] and ], encompassing some 30 modern nations (as well as numerous ]). If the Technate were set up today, it would contain nearly 600 million citizens and its total ] would be over 26 million square km (making it the ]). | |||
| Its territorial claims would stretch from the ] in the north, to the ] in the south and from the Caribbean in the east, to the ] in the ], to the west. | |||
| ==Criticisms of the Technocracy Technate concept== | |||
| Technocrats themselves would argue that those in power, politicians and boards of corporations, are a form of organized opposition as a Technate design eliminates a Political system and the corporate system also. | |||
| Critics make the following claims regarding technocracy: | |||
| *There is no possible way to eliminate scarcity of products in modern society and unemployment is not a concern in relation to automation of industry, as other jobs will be created. | |||
| **Technocrats, on the other hand, see the current price system as inefficient and wasteful, and argue that the unemployment rate is not an accurate measure of the total number of people working and the amount of work being performed. In the United States, of those of working age, only 65% ] in the economy,<ref>{{cite web | |||
| | author = U.S. Department of Labor | |||
| | url = http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS11300000 | |||
| | title = Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-04-09 | |||
| }}</ref> while European countries have an even smaller proportion.<ref>{{cite web | |||
| | author = European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions | |||
| | url = http://www.eurofound.eu.int/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/definitions/LABOURFORCEPARTICIPATION.htm | |||
| | title = Labour force participation | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-12-28 | |||
| }}</ref> Moreover, a significant number of employees work in industries such as finance, advertising, and retail. Many of these jobs would disappear after the transition from a monetary economy to a technate design, meaning that the "adjusted" unemployment rate (a measure excluding such pecuniary jobs) is much higher than indicated. Furthermore technocrats would claim that purchasing power in a price system is eroded by technology eliminating human labor and hence the underpinning of a consumer ] society becomes dysfunctional as jobs are lost to extraneous energy driven machines. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * (Official Website) | |||
| * from the U.S. ] (see section ''Technocracy'') | |||
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