Maybe slapping together armies from the Urban Poor plus all the other stuff we're doing will solve it. I think it's our best chance to resolve the Second Sons Crisis 'peacefully', although that's a very low bar to clear.
Stooooop no no no sunk cost fallacy is not helpful! Make choices based only and solely on what the present condition is and where we want to move to. Cut away all attachment to what we have already spent or lost.
Dark ages are brought on by negative myst/culture/tech
A price we already paid. Repeatedly.
? Is that true? That seems cumbersome at best. If that were true, why not just take away the weapons of anyone who decided to run off to war unauthorized?
To tell the truth, if we go on emotional responses, I would just as eagerly kill the Blackbird Institution in vengeance of the stupidity they inspired as save them to make the cost "worth it". So for me at least, I'd say that the biases "cancel out".
Remember poor connectivity? The local representatives of the state are looking around whistling and then wringing their hands when oh no due to communications delays some new place got conquered and their younger brother happens to be just the right person to help manage it.
I'll pull my vote for the leading option if someone else pulls their vote for Both.
Hmm, good point. And if we start the "recruit Urban Poor into army" chain, we'll likely have to pay either Econ or Wealth for that, so maybe better if we don't spend any Wealth right now. Land Reform is currently winning, but I suppose administrative innovation is close enough, so I'll remove my vote for that one.
Yes, that's what I was thinking about, but for some reason I typed Land....
Done and done.
You know, people keep saying this, but I wouldn't be surprised if both options were designed to give the patricians more power. I mean, in the update the guy literally argues that:
Because do you really think they're going to support a policy that'll decrease their power?
