Bakoro t1_iu2cm3b wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:06 AM

Reply to comment by Kong_Here in The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77

We absolutely do have the numbers. What we also have is a gross misalignment in the economy where many developers and engineers are being paid to make bullshit, and a lot of them are doing redundant work because the idiotic "competition is always good no matter what" stance of capitalism, even when it's purely wasted effort.

In addition, a lot of people who are smart and hard working enough to be engineers simply don't have reasonable access to education.

We do still need more educated people, but we could be putting who we have to more productive use.