"So one way of extending political time horizons and increasing is to age-weight votes. The idea is that younger people would get more heavily weighted votes than older people, very roughly in proportion with life expectancy."https://medium.com/@william.macaskill/age-weighted-voting-8651b2a353cc …
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It would be pretty surprising for policy to be more favourable to the old when they have less voting power than today, even if the young are trying to set policy to benefit them later (which they also do now).
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I assume it would look less like "create cozy benefits for the elderly" and more like "craft policy that makes asset-hoarding particularly easy for my generation, since eldercare definitely won't be there when my time comes"
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