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Forget not that Japan also managed to find a fun way to cripple itself via demographics, entirely without immigration for once, and China may well be on track to the same state.
Now their demographic decline isn't terminal at least. They can recover; unlike western countries. But until they stabilize their own TFRs, it remains open whether they really have history in hand.
China has a lot more leeway with the massive elderly overhang between state capacity, automation and not having to deal with them as a massive voting bloc plus such a gigantic existing population that losing some absolute numbers when large amounts of China's poorer population essentially doesn't exist economically already.
IMO if anybody is going to crack scalable robotic-assisted elderly care it's probably China.
'Yaddayadda population curve' also assumes fungibility of population and that certain demographics of immigrants aren't net drains over any reasonable time horizon.
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I don't think they've crippled themselves- judging by how wasteful their education system is, they're still overpopulated, and the more automation advances the worse that problem gets. They're many years ahead of the curve on the automation-induced wind-down.
At least it's not South Korea, who missed the economic boom [back when automation was unsophisticated enough to create a labor shortage- now it creates a surplus] and are as a result suffering from an overpopulation problem that's drastically worse.
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