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It is not surprising that the message of "We are facing demographic collapse" correlates strongly with "We need highly capable robotic workers". Especially among certain high profile people. I just don't see it coming together like those proponents say it will.

Any other comments about the truthiness of those statements or the truthiness of the correlation will just get into politics, so I'll stop before that.

Nah, we've just outsourced production to countries with cheaper labour costs.

It's a great deal: somebody else somewhere else deals with changing the diapers, and yet there will be a tax base to keep the country running when I'm retirement age.

There's more to it than that. We're not only bad at making large numbers of humans, we've also become very bad at training them to be useful workers.

This is only a problem if you also restrict immigration. Fertility crisis issues are not generally global. That solution costs effectively $0.

You're just stealing from another pool of limited size. Birthrates all across the world have dropped significantly. You only have so many decades left of people importation.