Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Well, regarding banks, I was wrong to phrase things in such an absolute way, but as I understand it they can only use part of a persons savings for their own investments, they have to keep some away. I think your point with the factories is irrelevant in a real world setting since the breakup of an individuals spending on particular goods does not directly correspond to the size of the factories that produce them.
And that's the point. The increased variation causes a higher need of more workplaces, while very low variation has only a few very specialized companies. And I've pointed out that the world doesn't run on 1:1 conditions.

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But even then, I don't get the point in quibbling about these minor things, because petty economic gains aside, the dealbreaker is this - people are being needlessly reduced to poverty and endless unemployment. This is not an acceptable cost.
"Therefore, to solve this problem I will reduce people to poverty and endless unemployement."

BTW, could you point out the difference of your idea and lowering the retirement age when it comes to the available workforce?

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And yet I would say that you are advocating the exact same thing.
Last time I checked, unemployed has slightly more variation then gender.

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An aristocracy without economic or political power isn't much of an aristocracy at all. Society tends to reflect its economic realities, not the other way around.
So middle class women, desirable because of their economic status aren't having any economic power at all. The aristocracy kept to itself to maintain their power, so upping the importance of strategical marriages would increase the effort to keep status quo.