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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment
(www.theguardian.com)
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So the article referenced a "chronic labor shortage", but nobody can afford the little luxuries they afforded 10 year ago.
Have they tried just paying people more?
It's Japan. Labor force is shrinking because not enough kids
it is not just japan, whole world has the same problem. all developed countries have birth rate low below the clean reproduction rate and are slowly dying out.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-decline-fertility-rate
One of the economic reasons immigration is good.
that doesn't change anything long-term, since global fertility rate was 2,2 (in 2024) and keeps dropping...