Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "China's pathway in dealing with the aging population" video.

  1. People who want to keep working and who have the capacity to safely do so should be allowed to do so, but I think it's a mistake to push the retirement age back. People are supposed to benefit from medical and technological advances. Folks who have given forty years of labor to society should be able to relax in their final years—hopefully decades—if that's what they want to do. I don't think there is a real shortage of labor that can't be filled by technology and definitely nothing that can't be filled by immigrants looking for a better life. It may be that as industries automate that more of their new found profits will have to be diverted from stock portfolios into state administered pensions. Tragic as that may be for the current leisure class, it would probably make life much more tolerable for those elders that actually contributed to society and their supporting children and grandchildren.
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  2. I think Japan is going robotic.
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