[lelio]

People cannot live in chaos for long. Cultures, states, communites, families and children cannot prosper in chaos. Even slaves will not tolerate chaos for long. And your money and cherished "property" would be devoured by chaos.

Bumps to that. If people are looking at their future as a programmer or a doctor and seeing jobs flying to India or hospitals bringing in foreign doctors as nurses (and eventually doctors) they're going to wonder what's in it for them? The argument of "oh you'll just get the better job as for some reason Americans are smarter than everyone else" isn't flying.

Or put it this way: one man, one vote is a cruel master.

[old-ager]

> Or put it this way: one man, one vote is a cruel master.

This is probably true. But it's considered the ultimate political heresy in this society. It creates two strata: the truly influential, whose power has nothing to do with their own vote, and the peons, who eash possess one vote out a hundred million -- essentially nothing.