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   Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 19:59:32 JST Ben

   "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 20:41:56 JST SuperDicq

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     @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I find it really interesting how China is now going all out on automation without any restraint or regard for things like safety.
     
     I have a feeling that their leaders know that the one-child policy has completely doomed the imminent future of China because there now there won't be enough workers in the future, unless you automate everything at all cost.

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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 22:01:13 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey China doomed itself by being a disgusting amalgamation of East Asian races. The Chinese of old do not exist and these current iteration are basically insectoids.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 22:19:54 JST SuperDicq

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     • Catherine is not complacent

     @CatDragon@mastodon.world @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party That's not how demographics works. You will now have an entire generation of people that will forever be underpopulated. This is unfixable. Similar to the western "baby boom".

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     Catherine is not complacent (catdragon@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 22:19:56 JST Catherine is not complacent

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     @SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey they eliminated one child in 2016. I expect they’ll catch up quickly.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 23:40:08 JST SuperDicq

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     • Ed Davies

     @edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party No, China is in deep trouble as soon as the current working population becomes older and has to be sustained by the heavily reduced single child policy generation. They are absolutely screwed unless they can automate the problems away.

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     Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 23:40:09 JST Ed Davies

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     @SuperDicq Huh, you went a different way with that from what I was expecting. I thought maybe they're introducing these robots as an alternative method of keeping the population numbers down.

     @TheBreadmonkey

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 23:46:28 JST SuperDicq

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     • Ed Davies

     @edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party In other countries the problem is not nearly as bad. In other countries the birthrates have dropped naturally, which is a lot less extreme.

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     Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 23:46:29 JST Ed Davies

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey True for all countries which are going through the “demographic transition“. The breed-more-kids pyramid scheme, like all indefinite growth, is not something which can be kept going. So, yes, more automation is needed everywhere.