Here is the test. We send people unknowingly in their cars to a train crossing. The lights are flashing. DANGER! But no train comes. If they don't drive past the flashing lights in five minutes, we execute them on the spot.
If there are arms across the crossing, no one will ever cross, no matter how long they wait. They’ll turn around and go another way, and then they’ll reach the same track somewhere else and just sit there waiting again.
Science fiction story I read in the 70s. A place of some kind had a tunnel everyone had to pass through to go to a destination, like a beach or a job, I think. At unknown intervals, the tunnel entrances and exits would shut, and everyone inside would be gassed to maintain a stable population level.
The population was unable to self-regulate on its own.
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The population was unable to self-regulate on its own.