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Engineer as Priest
The protestant reformation was a response, in part, to abuses of priestly power - the selling of indulgences as a common exemplar.
You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.
(Matthew 20:25-27)
The priest does not lord authority, He serves. He is a means by which one meets God, even acting In persona Christi. But he is not, himself, God - the ultimate.
So likewise do technologists of all sorts act as priests - mediators between laypeople and their technologies. The just techno-priest does not lord their authority over the layman, charging exorbitant fees and discouraging self-help. Nor does the just techno-priest chastise the layman with their woes for being stupid and ignorant.
The technocrats of our age are often corrupt. They lord it over us.