| sc94597 said: The issue is that voting affects everyone. Additionally people without said degrees succeed because of qualities that would also make them a good voter, but you disqualify them because they don't have a degree. I don't see how I - somebody who will end up with a PHD in physics when all is said and done, and two bachelor's (one in physics, the other in economics) am any more qualified in voting a politician who will decide a policy that affects - say an Uber driver - than said Uber driver, for example. All people have the right to vote on things which will affect them, if they are going to be forced to partake in said system. As the saying goes, "no taxation without representation." This was one of the cornerstones of the transition from elitist based monarchies to egalitarian (relatively) republics. Voting restrictions or mandates, impair this progress. |
I edited my post to say my idea couldn't be implemented in the US because of certain problems.
Everybody has the right to vote, just as everyone should have the opportunity to study! A degree isn't something that's given to you, you need to earn it first.
But in the US this would indeed lead to problems as black people (for example) earn less money than white people on average and thus have less opportunity to go to college (i.e. they would be unfairly underrepresented).
