Submitted by littlebopeepsvelcro t3_z3sj21 in Showerthoughts
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littlebopeepsvelcro OP t1_ixnpgtj wrote
Yeah that's the fusion promise we have been getting for decades.
Eve-3 t1_ixnqjm6 wrote
The fewer people there are the fewer people need jobs. Company x doesn't need to make a billion products if there aren't a billion people any longer. So they close half the plant and need only half the employees and hey guess what that's just how many are available.
The two aren't connected.
rkhbusa t1_ixpxwyp wrote
If anything it might even work a little in reverse, mass production scales down man hours per part made, the inverse would be true if you go away from mass production.
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SphericalGoldfish t1_ixnd3vj wrote
Not necessarily. All robots have to do is be more reliable and cost less than human workers.
littlebopeepsvelcro OP t1_ixnpift wrote
Fewer people means more expensive people
SphericalGoldfish t1_ixnxzqg wrote
No
Grand_Arugula t1_ixnc22t wrote
How? There are about twice as many births each day than deaths. The population is still growing.
rkhbusa t1_ixpycvj wrote
The birth rate in all first world countries is now below 2.0 babies to women. As the cost of raising children increases people have fewer children. Times have changed drastically from a hundred years ago when your retirement policy was essentially to just have as many children as possible. The birth rate is still above 2.0 in some third world countries but the pursuit for the cheapest labour is bringing money into these countries, second world countries are making quick grasps at becoming first world and third are rising to second status. As extreme poverty decreases contraceptive becomes more affordable and before you know it the population will start to slip.
Grand_Arugula t1_ixzoea1 wrote
You still didn’t address how it will make machines replace people in jobs. There are already tons of people without jobs in the world that want to work but aren’t getting hired. World population is still growing. Population in the US is still growing. It isn’t growing as an equally rapid rate as some past years, but it’s still growing.
rkhbusa t1_iy07x7s wrote
I’m not OP and never made any claim to a correlation between population and mechanization. But one day the price for young blood might actually take a sharp incline when the population demographic looks like Japan, we either won’t be around to see it or we’ll be too old to reap the benefits. The US is growing by immigration by the way it’s birth rate is 1.6 per woman.
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