Population of Sirius

[AdamantineFist]

Alright then, I have one question for you naysayers.

Why wouldn't a colonial gov't encourage population growth if it could sustain it? No reason at all. They would want the biggest population possible.

More people = more taxes
More taxes = bigger military
More people = bigger military, too.
More people = more stuff getting done.
More people = good.

The houses could support vast population growth. Do you realize how much SPACE they have? How absolutely, mind****ingly vast the amount of space they have is? Earth is currently sustaining about 6.5 billion people, and most of them have very poor technology. Now, lets imagine what you can fit on, say, four planets. Lets say, Manhattan, Houston, LA, and Denver. Think about the unbelievably, relentlessly huge amount of space. Now, think of space, itself, the final frontier. Huge, absurd amounts of space. Craploads of resources. Think about how much room there is for people, how much room there is for growing food. Also, think how good our technology for growing food is. Imagine if every single country on Earth suddenly became first-world, if their crop outputs increased to first-world standards. Imagine if we had ANOTHER PLANET on which to put people and grow food. TWO planets, THREE other planets. Even if one was absolutely sh*ty for it. Imagine what we could do with that. Now, don't you think a government would want to populate those worlds, make them productive, competitive? I think that any of the houses would want that. All of them would.

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