I just realised
>arc welding
>pops use electricity for heating
I understand the game's political futurism, because you have to in current year, but I don't understand why it's so technologically advanced.
It'd make more sense for endgame tech to be a space program than replacing coal burning with HVAC, heat pumps and electric stoves... furthermore does geography not affect the heat need for pops like it doesn't affect harvesting?

Why doesn't the invention of electricity go to industries first, to give them lights so people can, y'know, work/slave longer?
Isn't that a big deal for mines? Y'know the place that's dark and with gas hazards?
Why isn't the expansion of the state not forcing industries to consume paper and hire more secretarial, or "Shopkeeper"/"Bureaucrat"/"Clerk" pops? I'm forcing them to address labour disputes or safety conditions... this isn't a magical state of mind, this costs money. Maybe it should add a service consumption, creating jobs in the urban centres?
Why don't healthcare and education laws not increase pop consumptions of relevant goods and services?
Why doesn't education reduce workplace mortality?
So many questions...