pampered leisure in retirement. Be that as it may, a strong practical argument can be made that the answer to fewer young people is more robots. An alarmed interviewer recently asked the Nobel economist and author Daniel Kahneman about the threat posed by the “rise of the robots” to a heavily industrialized country like China. “You just don’t get it,” Kahneman responded. “In China, the robots are going to come just in time” to rescue the country from population decline.14 In the future, economists may count growth in the working robot population as a positive sign for economic growth, the same
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