The problem is that empires are not sustainable. An empire constitutes a flow of resources and wealth from subjected regions to the core of the empire. Citizens of the empire, overly busy with the tasks of managing all of this, suddenly don't have time to raise children.
If a society is arranged so that children are a burden because people are too busy, too stressed, too harried, too self-involved, to raise them, this is not a sustainable situation! It is, in fact, an insane society.
And the increasing impoverishment of people on the periphery of the empire will not be tolerated indefinitely either, no matter how brutally the empire enforces its laws.
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Re: Make FEWER babies
Date: 2006-09-28 06:52 pm (UTC)If a society is arranged so that children are a burden because people are too busy, too stressed, too harried, too self-involved, to raise them, this is not a sustainable situation! It is, in fact, an insane society.
And the increasing impoverishment of people on the periphery of the empire will not be tolerated indefinitely either, no matter how brutally the empire enforces its laws.