If there was easy access to assisted suicide it could help a bit. There is a whole lot of problems with this topic and working out an acceptably ethic solution is hard. But some people would use it. And I’m very much one such person. Being disabled sucks.
With AI replacing most jobs and with human resources being less and less valuable, is this a problem or a solution?
Show me how AI is supposed to replace jobs such as plumbers, electrians, carpenters, nurses, school teachers, kindergardeners…
There is a lot of labor where it is unlikely to see any effective replacement anytime soon. These are also jobs that are often underpaid and not so popular anymore.
That’s not news, everyone has known for decades
We have organizations in Germany (Rentenversicherungen, national pension funds) that can predict the exact day when Germany will officially become a retirement home with more pensioners than young people.
That day is frighteningly near.
According to these figures the median age is already (almost) as bad as it gets: https://www.statista.com/statistics/624303/average-age-of-the-population-in-germany/
Not considering regional effects, like lack of immigration into federal states with large amount of neo nazi population. They will be fucked more thoroughly.
This is only a problem because people aren’t having children. And in some ways, that’s a good thing. Until we find more sustainable ways to exist, more children are not good for the environment.
If governments wanted to encourage people having children, they’d have to do something to counteract the world turning into a capitalist-dystopian hell-scape. So far it looks like governments are doing the opposite. They act like it’s still the 50s with ‘The rising tide lifts all boats’ and ‘trickle-down economics’ still being things people believe in. Nobody does, though.
How is anyone supposed to trust in the future, when it’s clear that the world is a rich people’s playground, where a few hundred-thousand people get to self-actualise in the most insane ways, while the remaining ~7.9 billion are wage-slaves having to live through shocking daily indignities at the behest of the ruling class.
Not sure how we’d fix it though. Workers have no interest in acting in unison. While rich people do (and are much easier to coordinate). Eventually, the ruling class will just use AI-powered police / military to ensure nobody challenges the status quo. So it feels a bit like the game is lost.
Good thing anti-immigration politics is becoming so popular lately in many countries, that will surely help with this issue /s
Immigration is not a solution to this problem, just a short term band aid. What will happen if current immigrants became old? More immigrants? At some point you will run out of new people
Immigrants willing to integrate would help. Immigrants who aren’t willing wouldn’t.
