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by vmception 1871 days ago
For representative democracy though I think we can experiment with assigning voting weights to age ranges, in a way that allows fresh ideas to exist from people that have a different level of collaborative society in their formative years

Several parliamentary democracies have weighted voting, but thats usually in favor of corporations ie. City of London and Hong Kong
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xienze 1871 days ago
> For representative democracy though I think we can experiment with assigning voting weights to age ranges, in a way that allows fresh ideas to exist

The problem here is that you would be brushing off the concerns of an older group by simply asserting that "they're old and holding us back" without considering that perhaps someone who had been around for 500 years might have far more insight and quite literally had already lived through whatever political experiment some twenty-somethings want to vote for. Not criticizing you specifically but I've seen this mentality before w.r.t. old people and voting.

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WalterBright 1871 days ago
Us older folks have also seen a lot of "new" ideas from the younger ones that have been repeatedly tried and failed. No need to try them again.

A healthy democracy needs the young for new ideas, and the old to warn them about the experience with those "new" ideas.

It's like software. The new guy just gets 'er done. The old guy says "your quadratic algorithm won't scale. did you encrypt the password database? did you make a backup? did you set aside money for the tax bill?"

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vmception 1871 days ago
They still get a vote and if there wind up being many more 500 year olds it'll still let them keep society comfortable and familiar for themselves
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