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A population that declines through birth rate attrition gets old. The average age in hunter gather communities was about 15 years old. In the next 10-20 years, the average age in a number of countries is going to approach 60.

You can't just think about raw numbers, you have to think about demography.



To some extent. But hunter gatherers didn't have access to hip replacements and ibuprophen, either.


It's not really taken by a robot. You key in your order rather than asking an employee to. The same amount of human labor is being done.


I think you meant to post this to the other thread.

I'm not talking about self-service kiosks, I'm talking about "talk directly to the machine" sort of things they're already testing out.




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