Would the world be better if it was run by teenagers?

[adrian_mrd]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59219148

[iab]

Don’t miss other installments in this series: “should cars be made out of cheese” and “are babies too young for the draft? We say no”

[chaircher]

No, because the same selection bias that chooses horrible and incompetent adults will choose horrible and incompetent teenagers. Have you seen the state of student politics?

[rektide]

yes because it would have a term limit. not always forward progress but the new talent coming in & getting a chance to improve things would be a powerful way to insure we kept revolving.

[WarOnPrivacy → rektide]

> yes because it would have a term limit.

That's a solid observation.

[WarOnPrivacy]

Given that adults are directly responsible for 100% of all genocides, pogroms, ethnic purges, climatic change events, corruption scandals, financial scandals and most every other major atrocity in human history - I'd be find with turning control over to the group that doesn't contain the entire subset of people doing bulk, horrific harm.