Which one would you rather have writing the software for a nuclear power plant? (Or designing pretty much any system, including political ones?) The one who thinks only the “happy path” needs to be implemented, or the one who realizes that 90% of any robust system is to deal with the various unhappy paths?
I’m just thinking when kids today get old, they’ll be missing the good old days when everyone was staring at their phones instead of the then current reality of nobody leaving their VR pods. And they’ll be complaining inside their own VR pod, of course, inside their simulated Fiji six-star hotel.
Originally, only property owners could vote as well, because it was feared the riff raff would only vote themselves “bread and circuses”. Thus property owners, who had a “vested interest” in the success of the new nation would vote in ways that were beneficial to that continued success.
I’ve got family members buried there, and I don’t think any of them died for your concept of Democracy.