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Archael90

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The next of my "brilliant" ideas ...

Changing social strata and jobs by populations does not seem too intuitive to me and maybe it is worth changing ...

I do not play authoritarian ethics, so I do not know if they have any ways to deal with it, but as in previous versions they had a caste system, I think they have something similar here, and if not, I hope they will have (wink to developers), so I will not include such things here, just as I will not take into account gestalt consciousness and the fact that they should move their own populations between jobs without problems.

I would like to propose that populations change jobs in a more orderly way, it is clear that everyone wants to belong to a higher social class, but what when there are no social strata?
In the "Utopian Abundance" living standard, there are no social layers, all of them live in the same conditions, pops should not matter in what job they work and should not change them, and new populations should take up vacancies.

In all other standards of life, this should be related to the initial profession. When someone worked as a technician, he should be able to go to a profession related to technology, eg science. Those working with minerals should get jobs in factories producing metal alloys, or other useful things, etc.
The transition to the upper strata should last at least a few months, and the population that will occupy a new place at this time will learn new skills, and being extremely excited about a new job proposal, would work more efficiently at that time (say 20% more efficiently).
The unemployed who will occupy the lowest strata should spend at least a month before they are employed, but they would not produce unhappiness at that time, and would have an increased cost of living (the state pays for them, but that would depend on the standard of living for this population); if they were to go straight to a higher strata then "they would learn" this month, plus those few months of better training, of course they would not be limited to what jobs they can take.

Then there is degradation, it should not last in time (because why, some protective period or something?), But rather produce unhappiness, but unhappiness depending on the standard of life that they will now lead. If they had 1 piece of consumer goods, and now they will only have half, they should have about 10% dissatisfaction. If they fall from 0.5 to 0.1, it's 5x less, so maybe as much as 50% (values are examples, you can change them freely, it's just that they should produce unhappiness) for some time, of course, I think no more than 5 years.

Slaves should also work in specialist professions, but be less productive than free populations and should be given priority to lower social strata.

And finally, the ruling layer. I think there should not be bigger exceptions to what I wrote above (unless in authoritarian ethics), but special "noble" job available in the appropriate civic. They should be born, not promoted (from any population working in any other ruling profession) and be completely immune to social degradation. This job should also be resistant to possible "job shut-down" and the only chance to make a vacancy in it is to kill this particular population.