09-20-2026, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2026, 04:44 PM by Durian Fiend.)
(09-19-2026, 04:57 PM)ironyak Wrote: Durian Fiend - short Peter Zeihan videos as of late, and one of his most recent is about Japan's big push to solve their labor shortage with AI robots
I had seen that one as well, and while Zeihan is all about demographic shifts, it seems he may be underestimating the fact that with less people globally comes less demand and so less of everything to automate. Same goes for the dark factories in China - who is going to buy the output of all this industrial capacity? Other bots, I guess, so we humans get to instead spend our days on Puna's Eloi beaches drinking Mai Tais? Any day now...
Japan's population is expected to have dropped by approximately 17% in 2050, according to my search. That doesn't sound like a huge drop to me in 24 years.
"Will these new AI farmers be built in America, hence American robots, or will they be built in some foreign child labor using country and imported here?"
In the near term I would imagine they'd need to be built in high tech countries, so probably Japan, South Korea or USA?