One downside of giving more voting rights to those who were there the longest?

· Bits and Bobs 8/18/25
  • One downside of giving more voting rights to those who were there the longest?
    • It selects for the system to stay as its been, to ossify, not become adaptive.
    • Immigration brings new ideas.
      • Mixing allows the better idea to outcompete.
      • Immigration doesn't need to come from a different nation, just a different context.
      • For example, China gets a lot of cross-pollination from internal migrations.
    • The human evolutionary environment is the non-stationary environment.
    • Humans by being nomadic had to learn to deal with different situations.
    • Children are the automatic immigrants.
      • Someone was telling me about a story from an anthropology podcast.
      • A tribe hated the water because it was dangerous.
      • But then the environment changed and they were forced to live near the water.
      • The kids could adapt easily.
      • They've gone to the river and the parents don't get it.
      • "You'll never learn how to walk on the hard rocks"
      • "Dad, there are no hard rocks here!"

More on this topic

From other episodes