As population trends shift, where will future workers come from?

From the article

>In many advanced economies, fertility is now below replacement, which means the populations of these countries are either declining or will start declining soon. Strikingly, the same is also true of China, which is still considered an emerging-market economy. While partially a legacy of the One-Child Policy, the shrinking population is now a product of the increased cost of child rearing and changing social norms.

>By contrast, fertility remains high in Africa, and based on current trends, the continent will account for more than one-quarter of the world’s population by 2050. It is, thus, poised to contribute an increasing share to an important input to global production.

Just bring everybody in and then we can find everybody!!!!!!!!!!

Where the majority have always come from. The employees’ friends and family.

I am getting tired of articles and takes that insinuate to or flat out say that the human beings that come together and form social groups – aka societies, countries, nations, etc. … – are nothing more than cogwheels in a machine.

Our social bonds and resulting groups are not glorified factories.

Our loved ones and especially children are not some unit of productivity that we push out on a conveyor belt to replace an overworked part in the factory.

This is such an asinine question and way of looking at humans living together.

How about we look at the people where and how they are, and how we make sure the conditions and rules that we have to it are instead changed to ensure better life conditions, future, sustainability and happiness?

And I don’t want to hear about “but everything is about the economy and when the economy does well, and we need the pensions and, balbla” we have ample of data that this viewpoint is empty. Decades of increased productivity and fluctuations in demographics on all layers and it did not take us to a good place or increase our live standards and the humanity of it all anywhere near proportionally.

Maybe it ain’t all that deep. Maybe we don’t need million dollar think tanks and campaigns. Maybe we just build a system that is sick to the core and that is trying to self correct. Maybe it is fine to let things scale down and focus on other things until the system is in a state where thoughts of scaling anything – including but not limited to the number of people or “workers” for the tax obsessed at the top, and the tax doging reapers of most of the rewards that own them, get the message.

Larger population migrations resulting from climate change are in the not-too-distant future.

Future workers are anyone’s guess, but current configurations of people around the world are definitely in store for some shakeup.

Labor will increasingly be done by robots and humans will be able to reproduce outside the womb making traditional romantic relationships unnecessary which will allow for a solution to the global demographic crisis.

Articles like this who look at humans as if they were interchangeable economic units are completely wrong. If there’s a lack of workers of a particular field the answer is not importing what amounts to indentured servants but either increasing the wage of said labor or improving technology so we don’t need as many people to do said labor. If we end up taking everyone from different countries the other countries will end up with a brain drain or labor shortage of their own instead of improving their lot.

Labor productivity is already growing at around 3% a year, it compounds and will vastly exceed loss of workers. Especially if we don’t do anything stupid like expelling large numbers of young immigrants. We would never do anything like that…. Right?

Ai and robotics will advance faster than we will age. Expect to be poor and voiceless because we didn’t see the obvious ass writing on the wall.