The pitch from some people is the wealth will lift all of the boats, etc. Rich people have fewer kids.
Reality is 1984 style. You’ll have the party, soldiers and a proles. A modern version of what the Romans or some medieval societies did.
Reality is 1984 style. You’ll have the party, soldiers and a proles. A modern version of what the Romans or some medieval societies did.
Such societies were terrifyingly stable, lasting hundred of years before slowly collapsing. We're not immune to going back to this.
They were very vulnerable to succession crises. This is the main problem that representative democracy fixed.