[2] Scott also ran a small business called Duron Chemical Company which made paint and floor polish at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.

All the time he was discoursing so plausibly about teardrop automobiles, flying wing airplanes, and technological unemployment, I was looking at the other side of the studio where an appalling phallic watercolor painting was displayed among blueprints and graphs on a big easel.

[2][5] This allowed for Scott to have a greater influence in spreading his ideas on technocracy as in a few of the One Big Union Monthly papers he authored some segments under the pen name "An Industrial Engineer", openly criticizing the union's lack of technological perspective and placing too much faith on Marxian analysis for worker prosperity.

Scott, together with Walter Rautenstrauch formed the Committee on Technocracy in 1932, which advocated a more rational and productive society headed by technical experts.

[2][10] On January 13, 1933, Scott gave a speech about technocracy at New York's Hotel Pierre, before a live audience of 400, which was also broadcast on radio nationwide.

[2][11][12] The speech was called a "grave mistake",[11] "disastrous",[12][13] and "a complete failure",[2] as Scott probably had no experience or training as a public speaker.

[2] Scott "argued indefatigably that scientific analysis of industrial production would show the path to lasting efficiency and unprecedented abundance".

There was some discontent with Scott's leadership during WWII and a number of technocrats broke away from Technocracy Inc. and established their own organization which lasted for about a year.

Scott saw government and industry as wasteful and unfair and believed that an economy run by engineers would be efficient and equitable.

Scott called for engineers to run a continental government, which he termed a technate, to "optimize the use of energy to assure abundance."