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Japan is in a demographic decline. They need all the robots they can get.

currently most industrialised countries are in a demographic decline, sometimes patched by immigration that will burden their economies long term much more than they will help them

China is a deeper decline than Japan too, which will make their geopolitics volatile

All developed countries are in demographic decline (ex immigration), and need automation/robotics. There's only so many immigrants you can import before you lose your country's identity.

> There's only so many immigrants you can import before you lose your country's identity.

Is this true? The US has been doing this for over 100 years and it's been fine, I think. I mean, our countries identity has basically become "we're all immigrants" but that's not a new phenomena.

> our countries identity has basically become "we're all immigrants" but that's not a new phenomena

This is a very "New World" perspective which won't cut it for the "Old World" until their countries hit their own crisis points.

The US implemented severe immigration restrictions in the 1920s that were lifted gradually over the 1950s–1960s.

Most people in the US are immigrants, including most white people. If not their parents, then their grandparents or their parents. Very, very few Americans have a lineage to the Revolution.

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