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Robots don't buy products or services, meaning your revenues are shrinking. Meanwhile growing numbers of elderly citizens who require care are going to be suppo
by onepointsixC 4y ago
Robots don't buy products or services, meaning your revenues are shrinking. Meanwhile growing numbers of elderly citizens who require care are going to be supported by an ever smaller pool of young workers who will be overworked instead of starting families of their own. You have a spiral of death which is likely unavoidable.
- gumby 4y agoPerhaps they need not be overworked because the amount of human labour needed will be greatly reduced.
- Gigachad 4y agoAt that point the actual workers might decide to just stop pouring endless resources in to keeping elderly people alive at all costs. This is only a problem because we gained the ability to keep people alive much longer given extreme resources. If we just cap the resources dedicated here we would have no issue.
- visarga 4y agoRobots are not free yet. Even if energy was free and we had automation that could produce any product so labor is free, we still need raw materials that might be hard to come by or conflictual in origin.