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Another thought. Awarding parents of very young children more votes than parents of older children is giving more weight to inexperienced parents who are most c

• notahacker 4y ago
  The weirdest bit is that concern for the child apparently ceases at 18, and the same proposal considers elderly people - typically with more descendants than anyone else - so incapable of considering others' long term needs that the whole system is designed to reduce the effect of their votes. If old people are so selfish that "a large generation of retirees who essentially vote everyone else's resources to themselves" is the problem this proposal aims to solve, maybe parenthood just doesn't make people much more thoughtful about their votes... Say what you like about gerontocracy, at least it's the product of old people actually being more motivated to turn up to vote rather than the bizarro logic that twentysomething single mums of eight kids with unknown fathers are so good at decision making they need two orders of magnitude more votes than the average retiree (provided they sneak their phone into the voting booth to look up the trivia quiz answers)
  • anonymouskimmer 4y ago
    More good points. Unfortunately it doesn't matter. lordnacho (what an appropriate user name) has more kids than all of us critiquing him do, so his idea will be the one voted into law. :( Maybe his kids will listen to us once they hit 18, and vote to overturn his law. It is, after all, men who voted to give women the vote.