QUOTE(msacras @ Nov 15 2019, 02:26 AM)
Populations are to contribute consumption markets rather than production GDP.
Even Tongsan wishing they have more populations not because they have trouble producing more stuffs, but they have trouble to sustain the markets when populations shrink.
depends on whether on a per capita basis, they are net producers or net consumers
Tongsan is in that place because they are producing "too much"
Whereas in, say, pre-Black Death Europe, they had a problem with producing too little
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It’s a vicious circles. The more you produce, the bigger the populations you need, and it rinse back to the need to produce even more for the bigger populations.
Oh yes
Famously, the Nazi Germans went to war over such pretexts
QUOTE(thesoothsayer @ Nov 15 2019, 03:20 AM)
I say let the parents take the risk.
If the kids die in an accident, it's on them.
If they survive till adulthood, parents get a source of income later in life.
The State also incurs significant costs
It's like a company - do you think it's feasible to hire hundreds of thousands of graduates, in the hopes you can find and groom the next Bill Gates amongst them?
Even if you fire 99.999% of them after one month, you will probably be bankrupt just from the onboarding process
Same principle
This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Nov 15 2019, 03:43 AM