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by cryptica 2300 days ago
That's the result of having a country with a smaller population. This gives citizens more even access to quality education and more even access to all kinds of opportunities.
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That is super weird logic, very interesting. How do you think can a smaller population change anything?
It's supply and demand. A higher supply of people means that each person has lower value. You get a similar effect if you move to a big city after having lived in a small or medium sized town. People who move to big cities voluntarily turn themselves into commodities; they end up renting tiny apartments which cost a lot and can barely afford to save anything and they can be quickly fired from their jobs due to high competition.

As population size increases, the baseline value of a human being goes down. The baseline value of a human being is the value of the person after the value of their skills and capital have been factored out.