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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by efng on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:17PM (#7583087)
> serious inhuman stuff.

This is one of the reasons they are investing heavily into robotics. That is the inhuman that might save them.

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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by hga on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:34PM (#7583160)
I don't see that as being financially viable in the way I was referring to, taking care of the elderly. I was thinking of something more like warehousing them, at best.

Their economic system is so broken I'm not sure more robotics would make a qualitative difference in the outcome.

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