2026-04-12 15:06:46

Everyone in the West is scared AI is coming for their job.

Japan is scared nobody's coming for the job at all.
14 years of population decline.
15 million fewer workers in the next 20 years.
They're not automating to cut costs.
They're automating to keep the lights on.
Same technology. Opposite fears.
Most AI discourse assumes one context.
There are 8 billion people with 8 billion different versions of this problem.

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