Cool idea. Somewhat related: there seems to be a difference between "specialist" and "generalist" kind of roles in general in industry, government, etc
https://twitter.com/JTasioulas/status/1376249167023071239
"Technology" being inherent highly "specialized". "Technocracy" might be defined as "we should run society by dividing social problems into specialized chunks and assigning the best specialist to each chunk"
Other social roles such as being a CEO, news reporter, <others?> are inherently "generalist" in the sense that they require interfacing with lots of different specialist areas. Role perhaps is somewhat more about understanding emergent system-level properties/drawing connections
(another example from my line of work: law papers on topics I understand seem more "generalist" than econ papers, in the sense that they're broader but shallowed: lots of different perspectives each treated in somewhat less depth)
"Moral authority" of course is hard to define, but perhaps benefits from being dealt with by generalists who are more used to bringing different perspectives/approaches/etc to the problem and compare/contrast, rather than stick to one approach/set of tools
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