The obvious flaw is that humans are dynamic and evolving and you may not always be in the majority. Therefore you should be fair to everyone.

John Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” comes to mind.

The idea of the thought experiment is the creation of a society with the designer behind a veil of ignorance, that is, after the society is created they do not know the circumstances that they will have when joining the society.

I don’t think it was as direct of a choice as it was a slow sinking into inevitability.

And did any boomer really have a choice for Nixon to NOT close the gold window?

Tastes so good, or at least it did years ago.