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What is fragile? Recalculating everyone's score before each new election. (Remember that life expectancy changes constantly, even Covid moved it. Not to mentio

What is fragile? Recalculating everyone's score before each new election. (Remember that life expectancy changes constantly, even Covid moved it. Not to mention regional differences that go down to the level of actual neighbourhoods; some racial groups live longer than others, should they wield bigger voting power? Same with richer people. What a can of worms to open.) Subjecting voters to long quizzes - that alone would filter out a significant proportion of the population that just does not have time for such "fun", probably including the parents of kids that you mention, leading to overrepresentation of bored people at the ballot box. Uncertain status of kids whose parents are just undergoing divorce or their paternity has been challenged. (Not to mention stuff such as surrogacy, which is legally complicated already and different in each jurisdiction.) What about a kid dying a day before the election? The entire point system is a micromanagement hell, sorry.

lordnacho 4y ago
It's certainly an issue what goes into the life expectancy, but the question is whether that sort of thing makes sense. You could just say everyone is dumped in one table with no conditionality and that is the life expectancy. Or you could take into account all sorts of features like gender, occupation, and so forth. But it's the principle. I mean you could also just say each kid is a quarter vote, each retiree is a half. Quizzes, yeah, I can see why people think it's a bad idea. But what's the solution to idiots voting? You want people to actually know what's in their interest. And I'm not looking at it from the perspective of any particular country that might have a history of voter suppression through qualifying tests. Just thinking out loud about what to do about this particular issue. Kid dying before the election is no different from a candidate dying before the election. Or postal early voter dying. We can live with it.

lordnacho 4y ago

It's certainly an issue what goes into the life expectancy, but the question is whether that sort of thing makes sense. You could just say everyone is dumped in one table with no conditionality and that is the life expectancy. Or you could take into account all sorts of features like gender, occupation, and so forth. But it's the principle. I mean you could also just say each kid is a quarter vote, each retiree is a half. Quizzes, yeah, I can see why people think it's a bad idea. But what's the solution to idiots voting? You want people to actually know what's in their interest. And I'm not looking at it from the perspective of any particular country that might have a history of voter suppression through qualifying tests. Just thinking out loud about what to do about this particular issue. Kid dying before the election is no different from a candidate dying before the election. Or postal early voter dying. We can live with it.