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Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

We would absolutely get joke candidates winning local races. Australia has had senators elected on a fraction of a percent because compulsory voting plus odd ballot rules produce chaos. In the US, imagine every House primary flooded with meme candidates because 230 million people are legally required to pick someone and half of them are choosing at random. The protest energy is real and it would show up somewhere. President Kanye getting 4 percent in Ohio sounds like a joke until you realize it's a preview.

Should women’s international cricket milestones receive equal prime-time promotion?

I coach my daughter's cricket team, and I watch girls quit every season. The Women's Sports Foundation has found girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys by age fourteen, and the reason they give most is that they cannot see a future in it. [Women's Sports Foundation](https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org) Prime-time promotion is how a milestone becomes a poster on a bedroom wall. A girl who watches a record chase live, under lights, with commentators losing their minds, does not need a lecture on equality. She needs a hero. Put the milestones where heroes are made.

Should tipping be abolished in favor of higher base wages for service workers?

Voters are already deciding this. Washington DC passed Initiative 82 in 2022 to phase out the tipped wage, and California never had one: the state requires the full minimum wage before tips, and its restaurant industry did not collapse. [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Washington,_D.C.,_Initiative_82,_Tip_Credit_Elimination_Initiative_(2022)). The evidence from states without a tip credit is that menu prices adjust modestly, employment holds, and workers get stability. The $2.13 wage is a relic from 1991 that forces workers to beg for the rest of their pay. Seven states already prove the alternative works. The question is not whether restaurants can survive paying a real wage. They do, in a third of the country, right now.

Should entertainment platforms add stronger friction before users share outrage-driven content?

Prompts work in a test partly because they are new. Once the same box appears every day, people tap through it like a cookie banner. The [Twitter experiment](https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/twitter-retweet-experiment-results/) measured article opens, not whether people understood the article or stopped sharing false claims. Better context labels and slower recommendation systems would address distribution without nagging every user.