The history of the United States is (and continues to be) littered with efforts to restrict voting rights to those who are already closest to the seat of power. At the nation’s founding, only white landowners could vote. As that expanded, states started doing things like issuing poll taxes to keep minority groups, low-income people, and women from exercising their right. We have, as a society, largely decided that those things are a bad idea, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly found them to be unconstitutional. Shopify CEO Toni Lukte seems to think we should go back to giving more voting shares to those who already have the most ability to exercise power. The head of the largest e-commerce platform in the United States engaged in a back-and-forth on Twitter over the weekend where he proposed and eventually endorsed new ways to restrict voting from marginalized groups. In response to a post complaining that older, property-owning populations are making it harder to build more housing projects in San Francisco—a valid concern and one that actually points to the very problem of giving more power to people who are viewed as “more invested” in a community based on their access to capital—Lutke offered up an way to deal with the problem: take way the elderly’s right to vote.