At least playing Factorio 18 hours a day would keep them out of our faces for the duration of their term in office.
replyTechnocratic abilities do not necessarily make for good presidents. See, for example, Herbert Hoover.
replySo, you basically want an economist to be President? Not unreasonable, and certainly not unheard of. At least the pool of candidates is pretty large.
replyBartlet / Hoynes '98!
replyThe difficulty with that is that there are people in the real world actively breaking the systems. Not maliciously, it's just how capitalism works. You can make money by seeing and exploiting inefficiencies in systems, and that changes the system. In a game like Factorio the systems are complex but they don't change under you, which makes analysis much more straightforward.
replyMalicious actors currently don't seem to behave much more careful than biters in Factorio, so this should align pretty well. To be fair, biter are usually not inside your base / in office.
replySo, you want a team comprised of Factorio players and tabletop RPG players.
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