A future society implements weighted voting where additional votes are earned through achievement (education, military service, parenthood), testing whether merit-weighted democracy is more effective or more discriminatory than equal suffrage.
Models epistocracy proposals: should votes be weighted by expertise? Directly relevant to debates about voter qualification, technocratic governance, and whether universal equal suffrage is optimal.
Domains: Governance and Political SystemsSocial Engineering and Psychology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-ifPrediction / Extrapolation
Outcomes: Ambiguous / Mixed