I’m so confused by these articles. They present the matter as a completely new problem, while it has been a known and slowly evolving situation since longer than I’ve been alive…

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And before that, the worry was Malthusian overpopulation. (Which would be a much bigger problem if it had happened)

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, I remember my grandparents going on about it! Doomsday scenarios of hunger because of exponential population growth versus linear agricultural growth!

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago

Long term its good, short term it sucks.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

This might finally resolve the homelessness issue. /s

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

Workers have more bargaining power

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

I thought that tiny picture was pancakes 🥞

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Last time there was a population crash (after the black death) we got workers rights.

When there are fewer people the wealth of the nation is less but it's split more fairly.

All bets are off though if we get automated factories or AI that can work unsupervised.

Oh, also we will end up elderly with too few young people to take care of is