Democracy among high IQ, low time preference, property owning males may be fine, but I'm afraid the slippery slope to unlimited democracy and its low time preference, communistic third worldism may be inevitable. It only took America about 200 years.
I think most of the problems of democracy would go away if we limited voting in various ways eg IQ, but that appears to be unstable. As for unlimited democracy vs. other options, I'll just try to avoid picking anything as definitively better.
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But right now I'd go for a Trump monarchy
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I do not think it matters much anyway. What matters is having a good demography and an elite that is invested in the well-being of its people in the long-term. Think Israel and Japan.
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It would be important to have a humane and efficient eugenics program, but I do not think democracy is the impediment that people think it is. One could make a compelling case for the offering of sterilization to criminals in exchange for probation and for the offering of
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sterilization to welfare recipients in exchange for continued benefits. Of course the problem is the current climate where the idea that Swedes and Somalis are exactly the same, is considered sacred.
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Absolutely huge problem there
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