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Tade0 on July 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dam built by robots? Japan's Obayashi tests it out

We're in for an... immigrant shortage problem, however unbelievable that may sound.

China alone could absorb all that workforce and still have room for more given that their fertility rate has been below replacement for close to 30 years now.

vidarh on July 27, 2020 [–]

Last I checked numbers I believe China's population is expected to start declining within something like the next ten years...

It will be very interesting to see how that affects both China and the world...

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