• cum@lemmy.cafe
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    8 months ago

    How about age limits for government officials as well? Or at least the senate. The grandma at the tax form place in city hall is ok even if she a bit slow.

    • misspacific@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      personally think it’s less a problem with age. age limits are arbitrary and likely have no basis in science (within reason). however i do think it could be advantageous to require a variety of ages of people, and somehow weight their input, but that process may destroy the inherent value of a representative democracy; if we let everyone speak nothing will get done.

      personally i think hard term limits and ranked choice voting would fix the majority of issues caused by generational gaps.

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        8 months ago

        If we can guarantee accurate census data, we could reach a decent basis with age limits doing +/- 10 years of the average age of the area being represented. Probably with a minimum age of 25 or something along those lines.