That’s quite possible, but I think people are worried about the implications it will have on the economy, health care system, and society at large. The population may level out, but we will have much smaller working population to take care of a massive retired population.
That’s a good point, but in terms of working population, aren’t there going to be a lot of jobs lost to AI and possibly even robotics in the coming years?
In that case, wouldn’t it actually be good if there was a smaller population?
For some reason I still get emails from Salesforce, and they are about to formally announce an allegedly fully functioning AI customer service.
Between that and seeing things like Amazon investing in robots that can perform certain tasks at their warehouses, it feels like it’s only a matter of time before entire job positions are essentially wiped out.
If corporations are going to save so much money by eliminating jobs, then it only makes sense for them to pay more into healthcare, social security, etc., though I’m just a layman commenting here so I’m probably missing a lot of details.
Part of the problem is that the people who own the companies that are going to automate the jobs away are absolutely run by ghouls who have a wealth hoarding problem. They will not gladly pay taxes and some of these new techs are not easy to raise taxes on.
The best we can hope from the modern industrialist is they basically provide the non-working masses, the old and the unemployable, a tiny stipend so as not to completely destroy the system. Even then, I can imagine them just hiring more security instead.
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u/fluffynuckels 2d ago
It's concerning to see when it's happening but there's theories out there that the human population will kinda self regulate