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China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 2022 (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 53 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Aging population of disproportionately unmarried males and very low immigration.

China's gonna get weird in the next decade or two.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One of the major difference with the rest of the developed world is the more or less accepted immigration. See Germany for example.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That is most likely only a bandaid too birthrates are falling all over the world. Something is going to need to change eventually.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Robots and AIs can start handling more

    becoming less involved in how our world functions only serves to empower The Matrix, and make us more like slaves

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are retirees really like slaves?

    The AIs and robots will be doing our bidding, not the other way around.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    i like definitive statements like that about the future.. they're comforting..

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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

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