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6/30/2025, 8:19:47 PM
>>63917624
>Also we'll have to see if automation really makes up for reduced population.
How can it? Only truly wealthy nations could even theoretically make it happen and the problem with robots is that they don't buy anything.
A human who puts potato-chips into bags for 8 hours Monday through Friday will go buy some potato chips on Saturday. Robots don't buy anything at all, they ONLY put the potato-chips into the bags. So it creates a situation where the "worker" does not participate in the economy which ultimately will only create more problems than it solves. I mean, how is an economy supposed to work where most people don't have jobs?
>>63917493
In the ancient world people had no access to contraception, and needed lots of children to help run their farms/fisheries/blacksmith shops/etc. Also, the children would take care of them when they got older. People had no means of avoiding pregnancy, and needed lots of kids anyway since their families were the only ones who usually helped them as they ran their farms and got older.
Nowadays? Most people live in a 2 bedroom apartment that costs half their paycheck. And they have access to contraception, so they can avoid having kids. Also, there are (for the moment) a variety of social services which can help take care of you as you get older. Also, taking care of kids is LOTS of work that people aren't inclined to do.
We live in an urbanized world which does nothing to entice people to have children. So, people just stopped having kids around the 1960s and it's only gotten worse since then.
>Also we'll have to see if automation really makes up for reduced population.
How can it? Only truly wealthy nations could even theoretically make it happen and the problem with robots is that they don't buy anything.
A human who puts potato-chips into bags for 8 hours Monday through Friday will go buy some potato chips on Saturday. Robots don't buy anything at all, they ONLY put the potato-chips into the bags. So it creates a situation where the "worker" does not participate in the economy which ultimately will only create more problems than it solves. I mean, how is an economy supposed to work where most people don't have jobs?
>>63917493
In the ancient world people had no access to contraception, and needed lots of children to help run their farms/fisheries/blacksmith shops/etc. Also, the children would take care of them when they got older. People had no means of avoiding pregnancy, and needed lots of kids anyway since their families were the only ones who usually helped them as they ran their farms and got older.
Nowadays? Most people live in a 2 bedroom apartment that costs half their paycheck. And they have access to contraception, so they can avoid having kids. Also, there are (for the moment) a variety of social services which can help take care of you as you get older. Also, taking care of kids is LOTS of work that people aren't inclined to do.
We live in an urbanized world which does nothing to entice people to have children. So, people just stopped having kids around the 1960s and it's only gotten worse since then.
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