China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.
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.
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.
One of the major difference with the rest of the developed world is the more or less accepted immigration. See Germany for example.
That is most likely only a bandaid too birthrates are falling all over the world. Something is going to need to change eventually.
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.
becoming less involved in how our world functions only serves to empower The Matrix, and make us more like slaves
Are retirees really like slaves?
The AIs and robots will be doing our bidding, not the other way around.
Actually the opposite. Generally wealthy nations and individuals have fewer children.
That’s the problem.