> maybe some problems with schools will actually get addressed
You're basically saying you mostly care about problems you have experienced, while complaining that other generations don't understand you (without any basis, I might add). That's pretty self-centered.
Any sex worker can tell you that 90% of debate and politics around sex work is disenfranchisement and lies.
If you deny that people with actual experience of the subject matter are better placed to resolve the issue, I am not sure our comprehention of the world is compatiable.
> complaining that other generations don't understand you
Have you seen Marz Zukerberg's senate hearing? Do tou think Senate has succesfully held him to account for the shenanigans Facebook was pulling? Do you dispute that if everyone in that chamber was a 40-year old proffeshonal who could remmber studying IT, and some of them w
Veing recent IT proffeshionals, they would be able to do a better job?
Do you feel that in that hearing anybody at all of the older senators, say over 75, has demonstrated how their wealth of life experience has enabled them to do a better job?
Isn’t the point of democracy to align governments with the things people care about? To rely on self-centred voting averaging out over the whole population?
It's might be a kind of "expectation" outcome of one-man-one-vote, but it's not the point of democracy, IMO. I doubt it even has a universally agreed upon point beyond letting everyone participate. But averaging out interests, which is a sensible starting point, indeed requires that everyone gets to vote, old people included. The problem with "averaging out" interests is that the interests of minorities can get ignored for a long time. If that was the parent comment's point, it might have been formulated a bit better.
Uhhh the generation that we call the Baby Boomers have been in control of their respective societies for over forty years. You can see the age (and the apathy, of course) in all of them. The worst (and oldest, of course) are Japan and Italy, but it's a bad problem everywhere.
I would support a maximum voting age, give the reins over to the next generation and let it go already.
> the generation that we call the Baby Boomers have been in control of their respective societies for over forty years
So they grabbed control when they were in their 20s and didn't let go? That's a bit unlikely, isn't it? And most of the people in that generation had no power whatsoever.
> You can see the age
If you define a group by its age, of course you bloody can see the age. Do you add sentences in the hope that a random true one strengthens other ramblings?
> and the apathy
Strange. In the last years, apathy under adolescents and young adults seems to be getting out of control. Or are you calling them boomers too?
You're basically saying you mostly care about problems you have experienced, while complaining that other generations don't understand you (without any basis, I might add). That's pretty self-centered.