Samuel Moyn
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On elections, I mean, you mentioned my most radical solution, but
There are a lot of modest ones like a federal holiday for voting so that young people aren't punished for not yet being retired or not being powerful enough in their jobs to leave work.
We need to relax registration requirements so they're not punished for their likely greater mobility when they're younger.
I would also argue we should have fewer elections because we know that it's in the boring elections
that older people are likeliest to control.
Young people do show up in greater numbers for presidential elections, but just as an example, in New Mexico in 2024, the median age of primary voters was 72 years old.
We also need different campaign finance rules because the donors of two politicians in a privately financed system are 60, 70, even 80 on average.
Those are the fixes there.
And then when it comes to wealth, I advocate higher taxes, which means that older people who have so much more wealth will pay more to younger generations.
I advocate incentivizing them to leave their housing and build for seniors so that they can downsize without fear in order to make way for younger people.
And as you mentioned on jobs, I think many jobs should have mandatory retirement ages.
Well, so, you know, the standard Marxist view, and it's right a lot of the time, is that the problem is class, duh.
and that's often right, and it's always right to some extent.
And yet, there have been folks who said we can't be too much into just getting rid of every other factor.
And the classic example, which Stuart Hall, the Marxist you mentioned, invoked was race.
And he said that
race is the way we live out class, both in the sense that class is racialized, the lower class is much more likely to be non-white in the United States, but also white people are more likely to understand their class predicament in racially antagonistic terms.
That's how you get a candidate and presidency twice over now like Donald Trump.
And so I'm just proposing to like adapt that view for age.
It's actually a little worse in terms of age because.
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