We need a maximum age for all government positions in the US. The science says at around 70 is when humans start losing their mental faculties (on average).
It's not just about that though: The government shouldn't be run by old people! And by, "old" I mean over 70. That way there's no ambiguity.
It think it might work better to do a maximum length of service. Will generally have the same effect but should make it easier to keep from having a huge number of people rotate out at once, which would be pretty disruptive.
I like the idea, but they are generally added in batches.
A president nominates a bunch of people, them they go through the betting and approval process.
Example: the 234 judges put in place by Trump.
Trump did a big batch because the Senate stopped doing them under Obama, creating a backlog for Trump to fill.
Make it a maximum age that increases with life expectancy. Want to remain longer in government? Work to increase the average life expectancy of the entire populace.
Keeping people alive longer doesn't necessarily mean they stay capable of doing their jobs longer. It should be a fixed age that's only changed if there's a breakthrough in preventing cognitive decline.
I would say they should be tested for mental acuity but they would just game the system somehow.
This is the same reason why eg. voting tests are a bad idea. A test is complicated enough to be meddled with.
35 is the minimum age to be President. 17 years from being an adult. So perhaps go 17 years below the median life expectancy, somewhere around 60?
Honestly that's the problems. The median life expectancy is in the upper 70s. Once you factor in having all the benefits of the USA health care system but none of the cost, it gets even higher. The average for 1787 was in the upper 30s.
The concept of a judge in their 90s was as outlandish as the concept of 35 million people living in California.
That's neatly symmetrical, but I don't see an objective reason to have it be that way. Symmetry for symmetry's sake isn't by default better than anything else.
Realistically I'd be fine with a final term beginning at 65 and ending at 69.
There was a proposal by a satirical party a couple of years ago about limiting voting for elderly by the same amount of years as it takes for people to become eligible to vote.
That's not really a good idea... Just because life expectancy could go up doesn't mean that a person's cognitive function will remain the same if they live longer.
A senator could have the mental capacity of a toddler at 110 even if the life expectancy at the time were 150.
Even if we have super geniuses at 150 we should still be giving control of the government to people under 70. Let the "young" run the country.
Just impose mandatory annual fitness tests after the retirement age. No clue how it's in America, but here that's how it works with driver's licenses (tho it's not annual, but every 2 years). I mean most jobs require some fitness test, so why not positions is power? (rhetorical question, it answers it self)
We should be promoting a culture of enjoying your life, not working until we're dead.
Some people get their enjoyment from having power.
Yes, although true, a condition of that enjoyment should be that it not affect others negatively.
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I don't understand anyone wanting to work at 97 for that matter.
Well I mean yeah they could, but I think most of them know that if they do their seat will remain vacant because Congress will keep blocking new appointments.
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