Demographic crisis is heading for every country which has undergone the path toward economic development. When societies fail to reproduce, the only alternative is to import new people, or automate the services which would otherwise be performed by human beings. Japan is ahead of everyone in the crisis and their early experiments in automation can now be studied for their efficacy. One major takeaway from the post: automation
created more human labour, so in effect dispersed the human effort rather than reducing it.
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