Pensionists shouldn't be able to vote

[Basman]

In an aging population, retirees are going to politically dominate as the majority voting population. Now, everyone votes for their own interest but its problematic when you have a voting majority that are incentivized to think short-term due to dying soon. They have an incentive to sell out the younger working population to fund their pensions and elder services while a minority of working people have to fund all of this.

In Spain, something like 20% of ones income goes directly to pay off the pension of a granny. Its unsustainable and unfair. Young people are then priced even further out of having children, exacerbating the issue. In Denmark, they reduced the total amount of years that you receive government grants for studying from 6 years to 5 to fund programs for pensionists. Literally selling out the future. A massive amount of old people voted to leave the EU during Brexit, many of which then died during Covid.

When you don't contribute to society meaningfully and you are proven to hold incentives that are actively detrimental to the long-term prosperity of society, your right to political influence should be reigned in accordingly.

Boomers go bust!

PS: If I start raving about "the good old days" in the future and start advocating for far-right politics using bogus propaganda as basis, you have full permission to hunt me down and euthanize me (preferably painless if possible).

[Schizophonia]

I guess you are agree to also delete the remove the right to vote to students and and unemployed isn't it.

[Thought Art]

@Basman So much for democracy I guess hey? Those who worked all their lives for you?

[Basman]

3 hours ago, Thought Art said:

@Basman So much for democracy I guess hey? Those who worked all their lives for you?

They worked for themselves and their families, most of them at least.

Living long doesn't give you license to hoard wealth and influence.

4 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

I guess you are agree to also delete the remove the right to vote to students and and unemployed isn't it.

Pensionist should at least have less of say of how a country should prioritize their resources if they form a political majority. They'll run a country into the ground with not a care in the world.

People who voted to leave the EU where over twice as likely to be over the age of 65. They don't have the suffer the brunt of the consequences of their actions because they don't have to live that long.

[Schizophonia]

22 minutes ago, Basman said:

They worked for themselves and their families, most of them at least.

Living long doesn't give you license to hoard wealth and influence.

Pensionist should at least have less of say of how a country should prioritize their resources if they form a political majority. They'll run a country into the ground with not a care in the world.

People who voted to leave the EU where over twice as likely to be over the age of 65. They don't have the suffer the brunt of the consequences of their actions because they don't have to live that long.

You basically want to censor people with whom you disagree.

[Thought Art]

@Basman Yeah, but It's a single vote in a democracy. Pensioners should have a voice too.

[Princess Arabia]

28-30 is the new pensioners. In the mind, that is. Ok, I will stop. 

[Basman]

46 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

You basically want to censor people with whom you disagree.

We already bar legal minors from voting. Many countries ban convicted criminals from voting. If justified, we can limit the voting power of anyone. We don't live in a direct democracy nor is it egalitarian in the strict sense.

What if pensioners get half a vote if they start becoming the majority of a population? That's reasonable considering.

[PurpleTree]

I have a better idea.

We just throw pensionists into volcanos so then we don’t even have to pay their pensions, they don’t block my way with their slow walking and they can’t vote.

 

 

jk