> it is uncertain whether you can educationally get all people up to that level. Japan has one of the most educated populace. > use the humans for higher econ

> it is uncertain whether you can educationally get all people up to that level. Japan has one of the most educated populace. > use the humans for higher economic value tasks People are under-employed. There is also the social expectation that people work hard, so it's not obvious to me if universal basic income would be well received, even by the people who would benefit from it. > STEM could solve this problem if you could automate all the low value stuff Japan has access to cheap labor in neighboring southeast asian countries. Many of the workers at the convenient store are from Vietnam, Philippines, Turkey.