That night, Zhang Qin Feng received quite an induction class of this world's common sense into his brain. If they delayed this procedure further, it might lead to some complications in the future, and that's not something everyone would prefer.
Based on what he was told, it seems that everything in this world goes around in a cycle. Manpower, people, base, resources... Having more doesn't mean it was better, but having none means you're no better than dying.
That means that except for those ambitious individuals that lead the survival base, the concept of hoarding does not exist. Even before the outbreak, the social security and support were too perfect. But what the perfection led to wasn't improvision but damnation.
It was slowly going downhill to destruction when families were no longer a concept they practiced. The advancement in science allowed the locals of this world to choose how they would like to "design" their offspring.