China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 2022- state media
www.reuters.com
China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.
  • theodewere
    1•2 years ago

    i like definitive statements like that about the future… they’re comforting…

    • FaceDeer
      1•2 years ago

      Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work

      Emphasis added. I was presenting it as one option for how “something is going to need to change eventually.”

      There are plenty of other options. Including, if you like, having robot overlords enslaving humanity to work in silicon mines for some reason. But I like this option more and I find it perfectly plausible.