You never see anybody wringing their hands about rich densely populated countries as being "overpopulated".
You might be blind to such concerns, but they are expressed.
And although when you use the term 'overpopulation' it might be a racist code-word, when I use it I mean something more like 'the world cannot indefinitely sustain 6.5 billion people exploiting its resoruces at the rate that the Japanese/North Americans/Europeans do'.
Your proposal suggests 'counting', which is a form of work. Many people are lazy, and there are other people who 'leverage' this laziness to make counting machines that they sell for a profit. (The quality of the counting is perhaps not a top priority.) Thus everyone gets what they want--profiteers get profit, vote tabulators have less work, and the election results are left to sort themselves out.
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You might be blind to such concerns, but they are expressed.
And although when you use the term 'overpopulation' it might be a racist code-word, when I use it I mean something more like 'the world cannot indefinitely sustain 6.5 billion people exploiting its resoruces at the rate that the Japanese/North Americans/Europeans do'.
Your proposal suggests 'counting', which is a form of work. Many people are lazy, and there are other people who 'leverage' this laziness to make counting machines that they sell for a profit. (The quality of the counting is perhaps not a top priority.) Thus everyone gets what they want--profiteers get profit, vote tabulators have less work, and the election results are left to sort themselves out.
The people get what the people deserve.
EVE is unlike like the Jedi powers of suggestion: it doesn't work on the weak minded.