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- technology@lemmy.ml
Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
So the article referenced a “chronic labor shortage”, but nobody can afford the little luxuries they afforded 10 year ago.
Have they tried just paying people more?
It’s Japan. Labor force is shrinking because not enough kids
Wages have also mostly not kept up with inflation that went nuts starting around Covid times. Some companies have been doing raises, but a lot haven’t been able to keep up with inflation.
it is not just japan, whole world has the same problem. all developed countries have birth rate low below the clean reproduction rate and are slowly dying out.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-decline-fertility-rate
I know. Japan isn’t an exception, it’s just early.
One of the economic reasons immigration is good.
that doesn’t change anything long-term, since global fertility rate was 2,2 (in 2024) and keeps dropping…
Firstly governments should stop blocking immigration then.
Secondly billionaires have gotten richer globally and you can only get richer if you are making others poorer wether it’s directly or by printing money.