Incentive is to not be terminated. Not performing to an optimal level will eventually lead you to break a core termination law. Understand that they WILL be educated otherwise, will be genetically pushed in the right direction. Iron fist in the left hand, with a caring mothers hand on the right.
Termination solves all unfixable problems.
As all are veiwed as an important aspect towards the whole of Optimization, this should be minimized. I don't know how it will be portrayed intially, but after a few generations everyone will be valued at some level, and the "strong" and "weak" concept will be replaced with "Optimized Contributer", no matter the position.
Always in this case is not a solid fact, always, THUS FAR, it may have done so. the Optimization of the world will have contingencies and cut off points to not allow such dramatic retribution towards the governing body.
But accepted as a necessity.
The Optimized system of government finds a way to Optimize all things, all problems will eventually be terminated or Optimized.
No Chazumi, Optimization simply will not work on the current human race. If you steered them in the right direction genetically,
first, perhaps it would be effective. But the current human species is not capable of living under such a system. It sounds similar to what the Incas had, and their system lasted a while, before collapsing just prior to the Spanish invasion.
Terminations do not solve all unfixable problems. They in fact create problems themselves. Ever see
Logan's Run? If even a person who firmly believes in the system discovers he's due for termination, more often than not he
will fight it. Sooner or later, almost certainly sooner, you will get groups of people fighting termination
before they qualify for it themselves.
Your system cannot fight human nature my friend, not for long, and not effectively. Sooner or later, you will expend more resources enforcing the system than you will garner from it. Soon after that, the system will collapse.
Avoiding death is not adequate incentive. Look at the incidences of alcoholism and suicide in the Soviet Union. People need more than survival, and your system does not offer that to any but a chosen few.
Historically, the weak only value the positions of the strong so long as they have a chance of becoming members of that elite themselves. When they don't, they resist, actively or passively. I think that passive resistance would probably play a massive role in your state.
In six thousand years of recorded history, no human society has avoided these pitfalls. Only sheer political will could keep yours from doing the same, and it simply cannot be kept up for long. Even if there is no rebellion from beneath, sooner or later there will be corruption from the top. All it takes is one person realising that taking more power for themselves is preferable to only having what is provided for them, and you have the seeds of corruption.
Optimisation is not an effective goal in and of itself. It will never work.
@Perfection: Morality is subjective, and therefore meaningless in a discussion such as this. It may be important at helping to bring down Chazumi's system, but the morality of a system is entirely unimportant in regards to its effectiveness.
