If A.I., robotics, and blockchains make many jobs redundant, is flatlining population really a problem?
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Depends upon a number of factors. It is easy to paint these topics with a broad stroke but they do not affect everything evenly. For example, robotics is going to devastate some industries while not really affecting others, at least for a long time. AI will do the same.
So what is the skillset of the population because there will still be humans required for many positions. What kind of brain drain do some countries experience (although AI might compensate for this)? How is the economy structured because, as it stands now, we have something that will not likely translate into large percentages of the population not contributing economically.
Then there is the pace this all happens. How does the technology, and more important, its impact, compare to the pace of population decline along with aging problem?
These questions are much different for the US or Australia as compared to Japan and South Korea.