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Without robots I don’t see how a thoroughly top-heavy distribution lands smoothly. I myself will be 90 in 2064 if still alive. Probably < 1 working age person per infirm retiree. It will be ugly. That’s why I’m working on my robots already.
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To be clear I think this is net a good thing. Smaller robotically supported world population. Like 2-3b in steady state. But far higher standard of living, mansions with 20 robots for every person. Like Asimov spacer worlds basically. Caves of Steel future is too hard to build.
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If I live to be 90 (doubt it), my last decade is as far in my future as the 70s are in my past. Even if rate of change slows, it will be radically different, mostly in known bad ways, and I plan to be very mad and curmudgeonly about it. Unless I get my mansion with robots.
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Retired != infirm. Less dangerous/physically demanding work + advances in medicine means much more mobile and self-helped elders. Curing Alzheimers and Parkinsons will be as significant for dealing with the top-heavy future as robots.