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rkhbusa t1_ixpycvj wrote

Reply to comment by Grand_Arugula in The fewer kids we have the more likely that robots actually take our jobs. by littlebopeepsvelcro

The birth rate in all first world countries is now below 2.0 babies to women. As the cost of raising children increases people have fewer children. Times have changed drastically from a hundred years ago when your retirement policy was essentially to just have as many children as possible. The birth rate is still above 2.0 in some third world countries but the pursuit for the cheapest labour is bringing money into these countries, second world countries are making quick grasps at becoming first world and third are rising to second status. As extreme poverty decreases contraceptive becomes more affordable and before you know it the population will start to slip.

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Grand_Arugula t1_ixzoea1 wrote

You still didn’t address how it will make machines replace people in jobs. There are already tons of people without jobs in the world that want to work but aren’t getting hired. World population is still growing. Population in the US is still growing. It isn’t growing as an equally rapid rate as some past years, but it’s still growing.

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rkhbusa t1_iy07x7s wrote

I’m not OP and never made any claim to a correlation between population and mechanization. But one day the price for young blood might actually take a sharp incline when the population demographic looks like Japan, we either won’t be around to see it or we’ll be too old to reap the benefits. The US is growing by immigration by the way it’s birth rate is 1.6 per woman.

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