> Any implementation ideas for that perishing? Starvation? In the streets or organized in ... camps? Or something quicker, the arena perhaps? Suicide booths? "P

> Any implementation ideas for that perishing? Starvation? In the streets or organized in ... camps? Or something quicker, the arena perhaps? Suicide booths? "Perish" is such a comfortably abstract term... If a given person is smart enough, they will see that their strategy isn't working, sell their tools and use their remaining resources to learn something new. Not-so-smart types will try out crime; that's what police, courts and prisons are for. Even-less-smart types will indeed starve. Thing is, anyone who reaches this point is clearly incapable or unwilling to perform any valuable task. (Or in the meta-sense, to learn how they can perform a valuable task... w.l.o.g.) At which point the obvious question arises: what is gained by doing anything more than getting such people out of society's way as efficiently as possible? Or: why are you loading your question in exactly the wrong direction? The obvious answer is "whatever method is most efficient". Perhaps whoever runs an arena can collect enough admissions fees to offset cleanup, land, and other expenses. But it's all - as are so many things - a question of facts-we-don't-have. > Personally, I suspect that one day, unlikely within our lifetime, ethics will evolve to the point where it becomes acceptable to pay people for getting sterilized. This could turn into the biggest boost to average education since mandatory schooling. I already hold these beliefs; I merely lack the resources to do this and everything that is more important. (Which is quite significant, really; "improve society-at-large, effective after I am dead" is about as far down the priority list as I can think of.) Provided that the exchange is voluntary, mind you - if this scheme were to be conducted via government then dystopia could easily follow suit. But in the absence of such a downfall, this is the only form of "danegild" that I think is really feasible.