>>507265403Like all things, there must be a balance. Industrialization is essential for sovereignty, national defense, and providing a decent quality of life for your citizens. But you must balance it with a sizable stock of rural, traditional people who can compensate for low urban fertility. This establishes a symbiotic relationship that maintains demographic homeostasis. The mistake of Western countries is that they burned through their entire rural, traditional stock in an attempt to maximize short-term growth.