If the State&#x27;s power is derived from the consent of the governed, then a lack of political participation on the part of the governed should be considered a vote of no confidence.  This would solve the problem of imbalanced lobbying incentive, government overreach following tragedy, etc.  Most importantly it would solve the moral problem that Thomas Jefferson pointed out: &quot;The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another...&quot;<p>As it stands now, we have a garbage collected memory allocator with no reclamation function.