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This could easily be fixed by giving poor people ~80 years of votes and allowing them to designate a proxy voter before death.
by golemotron 3y ago
This could easily be fixed by giving poor people ~80 years of votes and allowing them to designate a proxy voter before death.
- nathan_compton 3y agoGalaxy brain shit. The problem is that young people don't vote. Allowing old people to designate a proxy is unlikely to move the needle. This is particularly true in the US because voting is actually pretty hard if you are working class, since you cannot skip work to do it. But whether it is that or just apathy or ignorance, just allowing marginalized voters to pick a younger person to vote for them would probably not work and wouldn't accurately reflect their preferences anyway (since older people still tend to be more conservative all around).
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoIt may not be realistic, but it's the most interesting idea in the thread.
- golemotron 3y agoI posted it to point out how ridiculous it is to problematize the phenomenon.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoWe time-shift money all the time with finance, so the idea of time-shifting votes is interesting. Like, the whole millennial generation invests their whole lifetime of votes in one glorious year to fix the housing market. (Or, more likely, to achieve some stupid mimetic goal.) Mostly it's social-sci-fi, but it's not totally outside the realm of possibility. If we want to get truly absurd, we could problematize the nonexistence of unborn voters (no, this isn't an abortion thing, though you could take it in that direction), and apply a correction factor for different fertility rates. After all, if you're compensating for death at the population level, why not also compensate for disparities of births? "One person in some alternate universe, one vote here, that's what I say."