Throughout the Land, people discovered babies floating in the river. A few were chosen to save those babies. While many survived, too many babies perished.
Technocrats, Economists, and Statisticians gathered all the Data that they could and discovered that at least 60% of the reason the babies survived or perished in the river was due to babies being tossed in the river; about 10-15% of the reason babies survived or perished was due to the quality of those trying to save babies in the river.
So the Leaders of the Land decided to focus exclusively on increasing the quality of those trying to save the babies floating in the river,