drothgery wrote:GabrialSagan wrote:My understanding is that Earth is teeming with people living in destitution
It's not. The illegal immigrant ghetto in Old Chicago that Victor visited in
From the Highlands (and similar areas in other cities on Earth) is a tiny, tiny minority of the Sol system's population.
A "tiny minority" on Earth is still millions of people. According to House of Steel Sol has a population around five times the size of Manticore's.
Maldorian wrote:Theory and Practice!
I live in Germany. At the Moment are thousands of refugees comming to Germany and thats day per day. We already have over 1 million refugees in the last months, thats over one percent of our whole Population. We have big logistic problems! A big Problem is the lack of Apartments! All the people need a roof above their heads.
Then you need enough People who speak the languege of the People and and and...
So the idea to invite People to your star system is only in Limits practical! If you cry into the galaxy that everyone should come to you, you will be overrun!
I hear you, but I am not talking about an ad hoc response to a refugee crisis. I am talking about the Star Kingdom making a pro-active effort to enlist and recruit young men and women to join their fight against Haven in exchange for citizenship in the most prosperous nation in human history, a nation that is so influential that it can dictate terms to the Solarian League.
Silverwall wrote:They would realistically only want people from first class star nations e.g. core leage worlds or Andies, folks from the protectorates / non alligned worlds would take too much re-training.
Anyway with a system population of over 3 billion manning thier fleet isn't really a problem, even at the height of the war they never got close to ww2 levels of service by an order of magnitude. The real cruch was the ability to pay for the war and the simplest way was to increase the junction fees and the historically low tax rates. Immigration is slower, less reliable and politically undesirable over a certain level as you generally can only naturalise people so fast and you want to avoid ghetto's like the arab quarters of paris or the pakistani communities in the UK where unemployed youth are a breeding ground for trouble.
That would make a degree of sense if the books did not emphatically state that one of the biggest boons the Crown foresees in annexing the Talbot Quadrant and Silesia is the huge expansion of their population and if the navy being short handed was not constantly being brought up.
