Shopify首席执行官托比亚斯·卢特克在社交媒体上表示支持按税收等级划分投票权的制度1。根据卢特克所倡导的方案，不缴纳所得税者将获得零票投票权，年收入1万至10万美元的人群获得1票，投票权随收入增长逐级递增，年收入50万美元及以上人群最多可获得5票1。这一制度将直接剥夺社会保障领取者、学生、照顾者、残疾人和低薪工人等群体的投票权1。
这一言论引发了关于财富、权力与民主制度的广泛讨论1。批评者认为这代表权贵政治的体现，而支持者则将其框架化为财政责任与政治权力相平衡的问题1。值得注意的是，卢特克曾在2022年获得Shopify股东批准的创始人股份结构安排，使其拥有至少40%的公司投票权，这一比例与其实际股权比例无关1。按财产资格投票的制度曾在19世纪欧洲和早期美国广泛存在，后来在20世纪的普遍选举权运动中被推翻1。
Tobias Lütke, chief executive of Shopify, has publicly endorsed a voting system that would allocate electoral power based on tax brackets 1. Under the proposed structure Lütke supports, individuals who pay no federal income tax would receive zero votes, those earning between $1 and $10 in annual income would receive one vote, with voting power increasing incrementally up to five votes for those earning $500,000 or more per year 1.
The endorsement has ignited significant controversy over wealth, power, and democratic principles. The system would effectively disenfranchise social security recipients, students, caregivers, disabled Americans, and low-wage workers 1. Critics view the proposal as a manifestation of plutocratic governance, while some supporters frame it as a mechanism to balance fiscal responsibility with political influence. Notably, Lütke himself secured a founder share structure approved by Shopify shareholders in 2022 that guarantees him at least 40 percent of the company's voting power regardless of his actual equity stake 1.
Such property-qualified voting systems were widespread in nineteenth-century Europe and early America before being dismantled by twentieth-century movements for universal suffrage 1.
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