About your idea of restricting voting: you know that it has been like that with most older republics and democracies, right? In France it was called "democratie

About your idea of restricting voting: you know that it has been like that with most older republics and democracies, right? In France it was called "democratie censitaire" - before voting rights became universal (ahem, if you were a man…). None of these republics were the rational, balanced sharing of resources state you envision. Universal voting rights brought a lot of change and arguably made society more leveled.