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