[fullsend]

The laws are voted on by very old people who can’t even use computers at all and probably don’t understand why anyone wants to.

[Rexxar]

Europe is not like America, average age of European parliament was 49 years when they where elected so logically 52 now (1)

Politicians seems much older in united states: "The average age of Members of the House at the beginning of the 117th Congress was 58.4 years; of Senators, 64.3 years."(2)

(1) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/...

(2) https://guides.loc.gov/117th-congress-book-list

[TedDoesntTalk]

Age has nothing to do with it. Every generation has imbeciles. Gen Z will have lawmakers someday that believe AI can be elected as judges because they are infallible. Or something equally ridiculous.

[robocat]

That is so casually bigoted.

Be careful: for every argument you make about the ignorance of older people, another argument can be made about the ignorance of younger people. Valid or not.

There is no need for thoughtless stereotypes.

[yakubin]

There is a reason there is a lower bound on age allowing you to be elected. I do think there should be an upper bound as well.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

GP is wrong. It isn't boomers responsible for poor computer laws, it is normies. Normies who are too dumb to operate the powerful tool they have.

[bakugo]

Most young people can't use computers at all either, all they know is scrolling through tiktok on their phone. What's the difference here?