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Technocracy movement

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Oct 17, 2026

Eric BrownHOST
18:01
Regulation is for people who don't understand the tech.
Eric BrownHOST
18:05
So technocracy is a real American movement, and it runs through who? The Musk family.
Eric BrownHOST
18:10
In the 1930s, Howard Scott's Technocracy Incorporated argued that engineers should run the economy instead of elected politicians and markets.
Eric BrownHOST
18:19
It was big enough during the Depression and Canada banned it in 1940 as subversive to the war effort.
Eric BrownHOST
18:26
Elon Musk's paternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was involved with Technocracy, Inc. from 1936 to 1941.
Mary DanielsenHOST
40:55
The irony is strong.
Mary DanielsenHOST
40:57
Musk's grandfather, Josh Haldeman, was the national leader of Technocracy, Inc. in Canada in the 1930s and 40s.
Mary DanielsenHOST
41:06
That's interesting.
Mary DanielsenHOST
41:07
He had no fortune to speak of and no technical expertise.
Logan HowseHOST
13:21
The irony is strong.
Logan HowseHOST
13:22
Musk grandfather, Josh Haldeman, was the national leader of Technocracy Inc. in Canada in the 1930s and '40s.
Logan HowseHOST
13:29
He had no fortune to speak of and no technical expertise.
Logan HowseHOST
13:33
Now his grandson is the pioneer of the modern technology that is capturing the world for technocracy, earning him the title, in my opinion, of arch-technocrat, and he has self-funded his rise to power.
Logan HowseHOST
13:44
There's no stopping him.
Logan HowseHOST
13:46
What is wrong with this picture? Does anyone get the idea that there is a demonic power behind him?" Now, when you really think about it, it is quite ironic that Elon Musk grandfather was the leader of Technocracy Inc.
Logan HowseHOST
14:02
in the 1930s and '40s when technology was, was nothing compared to what it is today.
Logan HowseHOST
14:08
So this guy back in the '30s was founding technocracy, this, this idea, not knowing that his grandson in, what, s- 80 years, would be the richest man on Earth pioneering the latest technology on Earth.
Caleb CollierHOST
38:58
But it seems that the entire Northwestern Hemisphere of this world is going down the road of US total control, and there's a motive behind it, and it goes all the way back to a man named Howard Scott, a visionary in the 1930s.
Caleb CollierHOST
39:19
Called it the Technocracy Movement.
Caleb CollierHOST
39:22
He argued that North America should be ro- reorganized as a single continental unit, the Technate, governed not by elected politicians, but by engineers using energy accounting rather than money to track and allocate resources.
Caleb CollierHOST
39:39
It didn't work, because the technology wasn't there.
Caleb CollierHOST
42:29
But it seems that the entire Northwestern hemisphere of this world is going down the road of US total control, and there's a motive behind it, and it goes all the way back to a man named Howard Scott, a visionary in the 1930s.
Caleb CollierHOST
42:50
Called it the Technocracy Movement.
Caleb CollierHOST
42:53
He argued that North America should be re- reorganized as a single continental unit, the Technate, governed not by elected politicians, but by engineers using energy accounting rather than money to track and allocate resources.
Caleb CollierHOST
43:10
It didn't work because the technology wasn't there.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
72:36
They wanted to completely, uh, erect, uh, a new system.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
72:40
They, it was a new economic system, right? Technocracy Inc.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
72:43
was a reaction to, uh, the Great Depression, so they thought this was gonna be a new political system that would, uh, erode any kind of scarcity.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
72:52
They felt scarcity was completely false and it was a false construct that was created by the market, the price system.

6 MINS LATER

Courtenay TurnerGUEST
78:38
Uh, Elon Musk is talking about his universal high income.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
78:41
He's created his TerraFab, which is, like, a gigawatt of energy in this, uh, you know, massive data centers that he, he has his Colossus data center as well.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
78:51
And I think that, uh, the, the universal high income is essentially the s- same kind of thing as, like, an energy credit, right? We can't forget that his, uh, grandfather, who was part of Technocracy Inc., actually, what was his number? Like 10451-01.
Courtenay TurnerGUEST
79:08
I think that was his number.
Alan BermanGUEST
35:45
Like if you just look at, again, the infrastructures that are being built within the, the...
Alan BermanGUEST
35:53
How much do you guys know about like Technocracy Inc. and the WEF's plan, uh, for, uh, like Eurasia and all of this stuff? Because if you just look at the wars-
VanceHOST
36:03
Everything
Alan BermanGUEST
36:03
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Paul WellsHOST
22:41
What was the technocratic movement?
Jill LeporeGUEST
22:43
The technocratic movement, Technocracy Inc. was the leading organization of it, although there were others, was really a North American political movement.
Jill LeporeGUEST
22:50
It was as much Canadian as it was American.
Jill LeporeGUEST
22:53
And it's...
Jill LeporeGUEST
25:45
And Joshua Haldeman, the Canadian leader of the movement, remained a stalwart throughout the 1930s, even as the movement progressed.
Jill LeporeGUEST
25:53
just fell apart in the United States.
Jill LeporeGUEST
25:55
In 1940, Canada declared Technocracy Incorporated a subversive political organization that was banned.
Jill LeporeGUEST
26:03
Haldeman was actually arrested and briefly went to jail.

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