I don't disagree with your observations, but having legally competent, but computationally suboptimal citizens excluded from a voice in how they're governed is essentially an oligarchy. And the slope sliding from meritocracy to plutocracy is an exceedingly slippery one.

You can't treat it uniformly, there’s too much variation among 16 year olds to apply a one-size-fits-all rule. I believe that the majority of 16 year olds won't be freely thinking or will not do their own research, but will just go along with who their parents vote for or vote accordingly to how the media accentuates certain issues.

I'm not proposing that we instate a test to determine if a youth is capable of voting - don't want to diminish democracy, but I can't dissuade the likelihood that the majority will just be pliant media sheep. I'd keep the voting age at 18.

Hopefully, I don't stand out like a sore thumb on here; I just want a more productive use of my time rather than doomscrolling on social media. :100:

Sound similar to Logan's Run. Mostly cuz of the 30-year-old cutoff for their society, and that it's also a bad and wonderful scifi flick. (1976) — Moliere

It is also my understanding that Soylent Green is people.