If jobs are “lost” because robots are doing more work, why is it a problem that the population is aging and there are fewer in “working age”? Shouldn’t the two effects sort of cancel each other out?

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If jobs are “lost” because robots are doing more work, why is it a problem that the population is aging and there are fewer in “working age”? Shouldn’t the two effects sort of cancel each other out?

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Answer 1

The Jobs robots are good at doing, like working in factories isn’t the work that we need more people doing like Nursing, Teaching and flipping burgers.