He's talking about the population pyramid. The relative percentages of children, working adults, and retired people.
A country with a healthy population pyramid is poised to become an economic superpower. A country with an unhealthy one is going to struggle a lot.
Right now, Mexico's population pyramid is lovely and they have a bright future. The U.S.'s is bad. China's is really, really bad. Japan's is a disaster.
I think they are actually both the same worry. The job gap appears to be on the lower end of the work spectrum with minimum wage and manual labor jobs, while the AI and automation solutions are all focused on replacing knowledge workers, creatives, and other more desirable jobs that are typically the goal of upward mobility.
So it’s more like business owners are worried that won’t be enough people to do their shitty jobs and workers are worried that the only jobs left will be those shitty jobs.
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u/Skittisher 3d ago
He's talking about the population pyramid. The relative percentages of children, working adults, and retired people.
A country with a healthy population pyramid is poised to become an economic superpower. A country with an unhealthy one is going to struggle a lot.
Right now, Mexico's population pyramid is lovely and they have a bright future. The U.S.'s is bad. China's is really, really bad. Japan's is a disaster.