Some say that techbros are fascists, and that STEM education and the systematizing that it requires turns its adherents against all that is good and true.

But is it? I went through Wikipedia's list of totalitarian regimes to look for any commonalities in dictator education or job training. I found (out of 26 dictators):

- 50% humanities[1]

- ~27% STEM

- ~23% other

where the newer dictators tend to be STEM (indicating a change in attitudes amongst the dictator-producing population, or wider access to STEM education, or a greater degree of pragmatism from the modern dictator).

Here's my list:

Humanities

- Stalin (edited Pravda, originally attended seminary)

- Lenin (lawyer)

- Mussolini (journalist)

- Hitler (painter and architect)

- Sima (teacher: Latin, philosophy)

- Pavelic (lawyer)

- Hoxha (teacher: French and morals)

- Mao (librarian, "intellectual", poet)

- Gaddafi (history)

- Saddam (lawyer)

- Khorloogiin Choibalsan (trained partially as monk, then student, then politician)

- Tiso (priest)

- Mullah Omar (seminary)

STEM

- Kim Jong Un (physics)

- Ne Win (studied bio to be a doctor)

- Assad (opthamologist)

- Pol Pot (RF engineering)

- Serdar Berdimuhamedow (engineer)

- Gerbanguly Berdimuhamedow (dentist, medscience PhD)

- Afwerki (engineering)

Other

- Antonescu (career military)

- Ceausescu (shoemaker, then dissident)

- Kim Il Sung (guerrilla, no real formal training)

- Rakosi (business)

- Macias (no real education, though attempted to become a civil servant)

- Pinochet (military)

[1]: Humanities is defined here as: philosophy, theology (branch of philosophy), writing, law, history, the arts, and so on. STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as usual, and "other" includes the trades, NEETs, and the military.

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