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> 2) Do _really_ we want the least experienced citizens having the most say?

That's the first thing that I thought of, but then I realized that I have a pretty dim view of the 'experience' of most older people that I know. They are woefully unable to use computers, and on account of their 'trust' in things like fake news they seem incredibly unprepared to deal with our current reality and are just as susceptible - if not moreso - to populism. And while this is a bold claim I'm not quite prepared to defend, they seem quite a bit more selfish and materialistic than the twenty-somethings I spend much of my time with.

Maybe in times of rapid change like ours, 'experience' doesn't mean as much as it once did.

Plus, it goes both ways. If we should defer to those with more experience, it's only fair that they should take better care of their offspring.