[bprieto]

You are just a step away from defending that votes from people that own land should count more than votes from all the rest. There are lots of reasons for that too: they are more invested in the territory, they pay more taxes on that land, they produce the food that the rest need to eat...

But around a hundred years ago, most democracies decided that every person should have a vote, and that all votes should count the same. Including men who don't own land, women, people of color, poor people, uneducated people and young people.

And I think that, although it might seem worrisome that so many idiots vote against my personal preferences, it's better that way. Because the alternative of having an elite that consider themselves better than the rest always ends in justifying killing all who don't agree or who don't offer enough value.