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by inimino 3505 days ago
> It's a valid concern that one voter only has to worry about their decisions for the next five years, but the rest have to for the next sixty years.

Do you see the hidden assumption here? It is that people vote purely selfishly and don't care about anything that happens after they are dead. As neither of those is remotely true, your proposal makes no sense.