a fully mature body is a fully mature body...and when talking about dolcett we are talking about dehumanization....because that's the point..so loli has nothing to do with it.... it just the final results that counts lol....
and ofc a dolcett society rationally speaking would never be sustainable...the numbers would never fit....
just taking in consideration meat farming in the real world....cows and sheep are an environmental catastrophe...just nobody talk about it...
this is why it's all fiction...
so mine was more a comparing dolcett to real farming.... even if its far from plausible...
but wait 2 decades for harvesting would make even less sense in fictional dolcett farming...it's just too long...
and i could say you are right about the intelligence topic...so a more plausible explanation would be probably some kind of artificial implanted memory...that gives them immediately a formed personality....without the need of years of learning...
and dolcett was never about getting rid of the surplus....but about harvesting...so dolcett's character should not been look at as women....but like a product which purpose is their consumation...
so in conclusion...there are millions of variabels in this kind of fiction....and just take those that would take the story more plausible