Going over my list of the concerns people have expressed about the RBE ideas, the most common is that we will end up with the planet run by a techno-scientific elite. While this should not be an issue, it does need to be talked about.

First, what do we have now? In most nations we have a political elite making all those decisions. While some people feel like their vote controls who that political elite is, many of us recognize that, at best, our choices are limited to players considered acceptable to the political elite.