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Aging population of disproportionately unmarried males and very low immigration.
China's gonna get weird in the next decade or two.
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.
i like definitive statements like that about the future.. they're comforting..
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.
will they help humans connect to one another
Actually the opposite. Generally wealthy nations and individuals have fewer children.
That's the problem.
Plus record high unemployment (20%+, some estimate up to 50%) for those unmarried males. This is the kind of situation that swiftly leads to revolution.
Maybe not revolution but likely a massive increase in crime.
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
2033 Chinese tv: "Fascist eye for the single Bai"