I think two things are true about Demotion Time
This small penalty slightly discourages demoting pops but it doesn't destroy the economy if you happen to make an accident.
Issues that this will solve:
- it represents the upper class unwillingness to do lower class jobs
- it works against every other aspect of the game, this is a sabot in the cogwheels
- When a pop is demoted it immediately drops strata, it picks up the nearest job it can find. NO UNEMPLOYMENT FROM DEMOTION
- We keep the Timer for demotion but instead it applies a happiness penalty (-10%) and a resource output penalty (-10%): this represents the unwillingness and incompetence to do manual labor.
- Once the duration has been completed the pop has acclimated to its new position and the penalty is lifted.
This small penalty slightly discourages demoting pops but it doesn't destroy the economy if you happen to make an accident.
Issues that this will solve:
- The outline will not be polluted with wrong information about unemployment
- Your economy is more flexible and less punishing to mistakes
- The RP aspect is kept if not improved
- The AI will be able to plan the economy and less likely to implode
- You can plan your planet more easily
- This could go really well with how Assimilation should also work IMO NOT UNEMPLOYMENT FROM ASSIMILATION, just go back to work!
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