> They wouldn't really need to cull the population proactively, they just need to make sure they can defend themselves against the inevitable uprisings when peo

> They wouldn't really need to cull the population proactively, they just need to make sure they can defend themselves against the inevitable uprisings when people can't afford to eat and feed their families. Arguably the best way to defend against the threat of uprising is to get rid of it before people reach that breaking point I dunno, maybe by starting detainment camps under the guise of deporting people who are in the country illegally Who knows. We have no really good examples of this sort of large scale population culling to draw from in history