The Job-Killing Robots Have Not Come to Japan

The NYT had an interesting piece on how Japanese workers are increasingly working well into their sixties, as a declining population has led to somewhat of a labor shortage. The piece rather bizarrely offers this as an explanation for why wages aren't rising, since it says that older workers are paid less.

That could be true, but it would imply serious discrimination, if older workers are paid less than younger workers with the same productivity. Alternatively, if older workers are paid less...