"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I find it really interesting how China is now going all out on automation without any restraint or regard for things like safety.
I have a feeling that their leaders know that the one-child policy has completely doomed the imminent future of China because there now there won't be enough workers in the future, unless you automate everything at all cost.
@TheBreadmonkey See, that's why I never trusted the delivery bots in Death Stranding.
@SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey they eliminated one child in 2016. I expect they’ll catch up quickly.
@CatDragon@mastodon.world @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party That's not how demographics works. You will now have an entire generation of people that will forever be underpopulated. This is unfixable. Similar to the western "baby boom".
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@SuperDicq Huh, you went a different way with that from what I was expecting. I thought maybe they're introducing these robots as an alternative method of keeping the population numbers down.
@edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party No, China is in deep trouble as soon as the current working population becomes older and has to be sustained by the heavily reduced single child policy generation. They are absolutely screwed unless they can automate the problems away.
@SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey True for all countries which are going through the “demographic transition“. The breed-more-kids pyramid scheme, like all indefinite growth, is not something which can be kept going. So, yes, more automation is needed everywhere.
@edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party In other countries the problem is not nearly as bad. In other countries the birthrates have dropped naturally, which is a lot less extreme.