Technocrats’ competence gap

Ambitious, coordinated technocratic programmes (exemplified by the 'Great Reset') become politically unsustainable when governing elites repeatedly fail to deliver basic services and transparency. Public exposure of routine administrative breakdowns (missed trains, lost case lists, bungled rollouts) converts reform narratives into evidence of managerial illegitimacy and sharpens resistance to top‑down reform. — This reframes debates about centralised reform from ideological arguments to a practical calculus: competence (delivery of basics and honest accounting) is the precondition for any large‑scale technocratic initiative to gain public legitimacy.