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Japan is densely populated and once AI takes over, production will no longer be limited by the number of human workers.
They may be on the right path to happier days.
in combination with a population decline of 1 million people.
And it's still too fucking crowded, and will be for the foreseeable future.
All those smart Japanese robots are actually from knocked up RealDolls.
This is a good thing. Japan is way overcrowded and declining fertility is the result of overcowding.
If Japan returns to it's 1900 population level, that would be a great thing for the people living there. Yes, the declining population means that older people will have to work, but it also means that there will be plenty of jobs for them. If you have a labor shortage and lots of retired people, you don't really have a labor shortage. It just means that the older generation doesn't get the privilege of not working. By the way, throughout history people worked until they died. So yes, it is a privilege, and if society wants to maintain that privilege then they need low constant populations.
Japan also has another lesson. Aging Populations are no guarantee health care costs will rise. I think they keep price increases around 1-2% per year.
Compared with Obamacare and wonderful Private Insurance.
Also, sex robots will eventually trump real women, so Japan's on the leading edge!
https://patrick.net/1301582/2017-01-18-the-end-according-to-rin
https://patrick.net/1302416/2017-02-03-japan-the-rin-nation-hopefully-soon-to-come-to-america
Maybe they should take in Islamic refugees ....seems to be working wonders in the EU
The fertility is fine, it is the fertilization that is missing. But reducing the population seems like a good idea, regardless.
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/japanese-family-life-falling-apart-143000428.html