adding to the previous note about gender and time preference.

young men have higher time preference than older.

it is no coincidence that progressivism, communism and the various flavours of socialism depend on twisting politics to pretend that women and young men should be making decisions for the rest of us.

there was a reason why the romans had the senate too. the senate was basically old men.

the downfall of republics is the fact they use democracy at all.

a society that endures and has justice is going to be based on the law being discovered in a competitive process between a bunch of mostly old men, who are trusted for their careful judgement, whose age is critical to their ability to discern the outcomes of their judgements.

this is why jericho stood for 9000 years.

probably why phillipopolis (plovdiv, bulgaria) stood for 6500 years too.

societies that trusted the judgement of a decentralised law system mostly performed by old dudes with big long beards.