u/The-meme-collecter

So this thought came to me when I went to retrieve my helmet from the armory because it was damaged from the last battle. So as I walked through the ship, ya know past the torture pits, cultist shrines and the hanging demonic chains that snatch and eat mortals that walk pass them. I walked into the armory but I couldn’t find my helmet. Thankfully our sorcerer was there as he was rebinding the seals that keep the daemons entombed in our weapons. I asked him if he knew where my helmet was. He simply touched my forehead and my mind was flooded with visions of mountains made from living people, all wailing in agony as a daemon as big as a starship belched fires to scorch the screaming mountains.
It ended with the daemon telling me that it was still in the workshop.

So I made my way to the workshop to find the Warpsmith in charge of maintaining our equipment. I found him siphoning demonic energies into the ship to repair damage taken from the last battle. He presented my helmet to me when he was finished.

But then I noticed that a spike had grown on top of the helmet, and then I thought “hold on, don’t only chaos Marines have spikes on their armor?”
So are we actually chaos marines?

So I made a post a while ago where I asked why Mandatory Overcrowding doesn't allow people to have more than the bare minimum living conditions, and many people responded that it's more like an emergency measure to fix homelessness and not likely a permanent standard of living for all who live in an Equality city and if available, they would provide everyone a decent home.

But these answers just didn't sit right with me, because the developers put in an event where if you have the "Supported Quarantine" law in effect and have no disease in your city, someone will tell you that you should enact no contagion prevention because the houses used for quarantine aren't being used. But if you have excess housing, even double housing while having Mandatory Overcrowding, you'll never get an event where someone complains about the houses not being used.

So I kinda just came to the conclusion that 11 Bit studios just forgot to put in a similar event and called it a day. But then I read a comment someone made about Mandatory Unions. They said unions usually are a result of poor treatment of workers, they are usually reactionary instead of preemptive to worker mistreatment. So the Mandatory unions could actually be taking advantage of their power to leverage more from the city if the workers aren't even being mistreated in the first place. In fact, in this post on slide number 6. You'll get an event where the unions take advantage of Empowered Management to give themselves more privileges than what's sensible.

So what if Mandatory Overcrowding is being used to make sure the people of an Equality city don't take too much than what the city can realistically give?

Think of it like this, an Equality city has Mandatory Overcrowding, but if it was able to build enough housing to give everyone more space than they needed. They would then switch to something like "Standardized Housing" where everyone was given a little bit more space.

This would prove that an Equality city would expend resources to make sure that its people were comfortable and satisfied with their lives. But you're always gonna have people who won't be satisfied with their lot in life, so these people hold unions and say "the city has enough to give us more, they're just holding out on us" and soon you have unions who begin asking for bigger and nicer houses, but sense its an Equality city, you need to make sure EVERYONE has these nice houses, and with how much Equality cities struggle with efficiency and resource accumulation compared to Merit cities, they aren't likely to have enough resources to build these houses.

So my assumption is that Mandatory Overcrowding is a preventative measure to make sure that everyone can be provided for without stretching the city to its absolute limit. Because if an Equality city had to fulfil the desires of its citizens, it would have to satisfy everyone and make sure that everyone could be given the same luxury's and that's basically impossible, even for a Merit city where they have way more efficiency.

This is all just a theory though, a Game Theory if you will. So I'm curious if y'all have anything to say on the matter. Am I right, am I wrong? Should anyone care sense this is all just a video game anyway? Let me know, and as always thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.