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Japan has one of the lowest unemployments on the planet, 2.5%.

Virtually all that don't work don't want to and don't need to or simply can't.

As the article we're commenting points out Japan has a labor shortage.

But this guy googled it and apparently there are 18% of Japanese people not working, so obviously their entire society pivoting towards automation is wrong.

Yep. In a society with an aging population and a low birth rate, people who would prefer to be full-time parents staying home and raising their kids ought to instead be doing undesirable, monotonous, easily-automatable jobs that robots can do. Or at least two families could agree to pay each other to raise the other's children, so that it counts as employment, rather than raising their own. Yes, maximizing labor force participation... That's how things ought to be.

That's how you ensure the birth rate stays low.

I think you are missing the sarcasm.

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