Thursday, September 17, 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/why-non-voters-matter/405250/
"While 52 percent of those earning more than $150,000 voted, only 24 percent of those earning less than $10,000 went to the polls."
That's interesting. Is it because the poor are too busy with survival, and the rich have more leisure time for items further down Maslow's hierarchy?
Because, in dollar terms, it is cheaper for the poor to vote; their opportunity costs are lower. I'm not going to take this to the Scalia/Posner extreme and suggest we do away with the secret ballot so that busy executives can just hire a poor person to go vote for them, the way lawyers hire homeless people to stand in line for them to reserve seats at the supreme court's bar section.
"While 52 percent of those earning more than $150,000 voted, only 24 percent of those earning less than $10,000 went to the polls."
That's interesting. Is it because the poor are too busy with survival, and the rich have more leisure time for items further down Maslow's hierarchy?
Because, in dollar terms, it is cheaper for the poor to vote; their opportunity costs are lower. I'm not going to take this to the Scalia/Posner extreme and suggest we do away with the secret ballot so that busy executives can just hire a poor person to go vote for them, the way lawyers hire homeless people to stand in line for them to reserve seats at the supreme court's bar section.
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