You suggest using a logistic growth model instead. Your colleague agrees, and recommends harvesting the bass population down to just under carrying capacity. Their argument is that the population will remain large and population growth will be fastest if it is harvested down to this size. A) Why is this argument incorrect

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.