one thing to bear in mind is that even using the the weighting scheme I suggested in the post—which seemingly strongly favors young people—that would move the median voter (in the US) from age 55 to age 40.
How do you get this result? Are you just saying with these multipliers applied to the current age distribution of voters, the median US vote would be cast by a 40 yo? Or if this anticipating the response to the multipliers? Like, for example, does this take into account that young people would probably vote more if their votes counted 6x more?
I’m not knocking the overall idea, but I am skeptical that young people will be that much better at resisting short-term political temptations than old people. If young people got huge vote multipliers, politicians would only pander to their weaknesses more. I guess like most people commenting here I have the most faith in middle-aged people. I like the idea of a more gradual tapering up and down of the vote multiplier, but a system that complicated is probably doomed.
Maybe parents should get huge vote multipliers. Seems to me they usually care about the future a lot more than the young people who are on track to outlive them.
How do you get this result? Are you just saying with these multipliers applied to the current age distribution of voters, the median US vote would be cast by a 40 yo? Or if this anticipating the response to the multipliers? Like, for example, does this take into account that young people would probably vote more if their votes counted 6x more?
I’m not knocking the overall idea, but I am skeptical that young people will be that much better at resisting short-term political temptations than old people. If young people got huge vote multipliers, politicians would only pander to their weaknesses more. I guess like most people commenting here I have the most faith in middle-aged people. I like the idea of a more gradual tapering up and down of the vote multiplier, but a system that complicated is probably doomed.
Maybe parents should get huge vote multipliers. Seems to me they usually care about the future a lot more than the young people who are on track to outlive them.