>>85831072> the need to support elderly members of societyBro our productivity increased by 250% over the last 75 years and there's no signs of stopping any time soon. The age to which people are living has also stagnated in the last 20 years in most developed countries
If ai/agi ever arise we literally wont need labour anymore
You could (if it didn't completely destabilize the countries if it was too fast) slash all developed worlds populations by half and they would theoretically still function
Halving over 80 fucking years in the worst case scenario is literally nothing unless you have made a life and death pact with the concept of capitalism itself
We managed before with much lower populations and whatever mix of young/old is completely fixable with the massive increases in productivity we've seen EVEN IF you don't extrapolate for future growth