2 November

Europe and China are rapidly arriving where Japan has already been for many years. No younger workers left, to service huge elderly populations. Look at Japan, it’s pretty much at 1 working person for every 1 retired person already. That’s a disaster. It’s why it’s spent decades developing robots, to try to fill the gap left by ageing populations. It hasn’t worked. Europe and China are converging upon only one worker for every 2 retired people, in the next few decades. That’s also a disaster. America and Australia with high immigration are able to resist this trend a bit better, but it won’t be enough longer-term. If you stop having babies, your society is over. Kidult culture did this, when everybody of every age just ‘lives their best life’, when lives become lifestyles, who would have children? They get in the way.