Sixteen-year-olds can learn to drive, get a job, pay taxes and be on the Organ Donor Register, but they are considered too young to vote. Should they also have a stake in deciding their future?
Though I should argue that democracy is not functioning if people cannot care about issues due to needing to work excessively in order to eat and have shelter. People shouldn’t be worrying about what they’re going to eat or where they’re going to live but about policy that affects them
What about the best of both worlds? You can cast you own vote or you can hire a proxy to vote on your behalf. Obviously we would need some regulation on what is basically selling votes. But by making it an expense people are incentivised to do it themselves and you have the power to remove their proxy status at any point
I don’t want to choose a proxy, I want a direct say. The only person I want representing me, is me.
Anything less is simply lipstick on a pig.
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Though I should argue that democracy is not functioning if people cannot care about issues due to needing to work excessively in order to eat and have shelter. People shouldn’t be worrying about what they’re going to eat or where they’re going to live but about policy that affects them
@Zagorath@aussie.zone @Deceptichum@kbin.social
What about the best of both worlds? You can cast you own vote or you can hire a proxy to vote on your behalf. Obviously we would need some regulation on what is basically selling votes. But by making it an expense people are incentivised to do it themselves and you have the power to remove their proxy status at any point
No different to the potential for the same problem today in representative elections.
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Ok then? Do that. But why should your preference to do it that way dictate how everyone must do it?