Robotics and Population Decline

Posted by VetteGuy 20 hours, 27 minutes ago to Technology
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I've noticed a lot of "news" reporting on these two topics lately. Am I the only one who sees that these two phenomena could be complimentary? Population declines, but at the same time, we need fewer workers because robots are doing more jobs. I have not seen any reports that link these two issues. Could they offset each other? What would that look like? Is Asimov's Solaria [From The Naked Sun] the future of humanity?


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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 hours, 15 minutes ago
    As long as the robots have to pay into social security and medicare. ;^)
    US was a much more pleasant place when the population was less than 200 million.
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