• @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    531 year ago

    Aging population of disproportionately unmarried males and very low immigration.

    China’s gonna get weird in the next decade or two.

    • Anomandaris
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      241 year ago

      And the rest of the developed world is going to follow close behind as long as the wealth inequality stays as ridiculously broken as it is.

      • @NanoooK@sh.itjust.works
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        221 year ago

        One of the major difference with the rest of the developed world is the more or less accepted immigration. See Germany for example.

          • FaceDeer
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            51 year ago

            Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work, hopefully enough to support a population with a larger proportion of retired/unemployed humans.

            • theodewere
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              11 year ago

              Robots and AIs can start handling more

              becoming less involved in how our world functions only serves to empower The Matrix, and make us more like slaves

              • FaceDeer
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                31 year ago

                Are retirees really like slaves?

                The AIs and robots will be doing our bidding, not the other way around.

                • theodewere
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                  11 year ago

                  i like definitive statements like that about the future… they’re comforting…

                  • FaceDeer
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                    11 year ago

                    Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work

                    Emphasis added. I was presenting it as one option for how “something is going to need to change eventually.”

                    There are plenty of other options. Including, if you like, having robot overlords enslaving humanity to work in silicon mines for some reason. But I like this option more and I find it perfectly plausible.

      • sadreality
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        01 year ago

        You sound like a domestic terrorist sir… how about you work harder!

    • @clutch@lemmy.ml
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      31 year ago

      On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…

      /s obviously but it is really bad for them