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Automation isn't keeping up with the decrease in fertility rates.

There's considerably less young people entering the workforce in the west now than there were 40 years ago.



Automation isn't the same in each sector, but even if it was, it's unlikely to be linear going forward.

Likewise, fertility rates may be going down, but we also have people working on all kinds of things in that area, including but not limited to artificial wombs.


I gather you don't have children.

Fertility rates are not down because people are infertile, they're down because people increasingly choose to not have children.


Choosing not to have children yet, some of whom then wake up one day to find it's too late.




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