Musk said: "If Japan continues like this, it will disappear from the world sooner or later!"
It’s not over, he added, even more frightening: there may be 30 billion to 50 billion human-like robots in the future, several times as many as humans.
It wasn't the first time he said such a thing. Starting from 2022, he has repeatedly reminded: Japan's birth rate has been falling, but the mortality rate has been rising. If it is not reversed, "the country will disappear." At that time, Japan had lost 640,000 people a year.
This year, as Japan's birth rate hit a new low, he issued another warning. In June, the Japanese government launched an official dating app to encourage people to get married and have children. Musk said that "the direction is right, but it has to be tougher, or Japan will be like other countries sooner or later."
Just in August, he predicted that Japan's population could be reduced by nearly one million in 2025. He said that this problem did not happen now, but its roots were buried decades ago.
Many people say "can't you just bring in immigrants"? But Musk believes that immigration cannot solve the global population collapse at all, and the gap is too large.
The numbers are there: In 2024, Japan will have only 680,000 births and 1.60 million deaths. The net population decline is more than 900,000 - a decline that has persisted for 16 consecutive years.
There are more and more elderly people, fewer and fewer young people, there is a serious shortage of labor, and economic pressure and social welfare are all tight.
No matter how powerful your technology and money you are, you have no one, so why are you talking about the future?
This is not just a crisis in Japan.
Many countries - especially the developed world - are walking on the same precipice: low fertility, high aging, and a collapse in technology, machinery, and migration alone.
Could robots become your next generation?
Will AI be smarter to keep the temperatures of families, communities, and nations in place of a living person?
Somebody thinks Musk has been speechless all day.
But think carefully, isn’t what he says reality?
For more than ten years, there are fewer and fewer people in a country, schools are closed, the news of the lonely death of the elderly frequently makes headlines, and the labor gap is supported by foreign workers and automation-isn't this the reality that is happening?
This is no longer a "crisis", but an ongoing one.
Japan is like a microcosm: highly civilized, highly developed, but also highly exhausted.
It has entered the "post-population era" ahead of schedule, and it has also reminded the whole world that some problems can be solved without money and technology.
Once the fertility rate falls, it’s hard to pull back and get up to heaven.It’s not a slogan, it’s an app that can change.
Or are we just looking back at another country?
When ageing becomes normal, when a generation is smaller than a generation, will we also follow the same path?
Musk's warning was ostensibly addressed to Japan, but in fact it was a heavy blow to all countries that ignore population issues.
No one's future, no matter how advanced technology is, it is just a cold number.
A country without children, a brilliant civilization, could end.
It’s not over, he added, even more frightening: there may be 30 billion to 50 billion human-like robots in the future, several times as many as humans.
It wasn't the first time he said such a thing. Starting from 2022, he has repeatedly reminded: Japan's birth rate has been falling, but the mortality rate has been rising. If it is not reversed, "the country will disappear." At that time, Japan had lost 640,000 people a year.
This year, as Japan's birth rate hit a new low, he issued another warning. In June, the Japanese government launched an official dating app to encourage people to get married and have children. Musk said that "the direction is right, but it has to be tougher, or Japan will be like other countries sooner or later."
Just in August, he predicted that Japan's population could be reduced by nearly one million in 2025. He said that this problem did not happen now, but its roots were buried decades ago.
Many people say "can't you just bring in immigrants"? But Musk believes that immigration cannot solve the global population collapse at all, and the gap is too large.
The numbers are there: In 2024, Japan will have only 680,000 births and 1.60 million deaths. The net population decline is more than 900,000 - a decline that has persisted for 16 consecutive years.
There are more and more elderly people, fewer and fewer young people, there is a serious shortage of labor, and economic pressure and social welfare are all tight.
No matter how powerful your technology and money you are, you have no one, so why are you talking about the future?
This is not just a crisis in Japan.
Many countries - especially the developed world - are walking on the same precipice: low fertility, high aging, and a collapse in technology, machinery, and migration alone.
Could robots become your next generation?
Will AI be smarter to keep the temperatures of families, communities, and nations in place of a living person?
Somebody thinks Musk has been speechless all day.
But think carefully, isn’t what he says reality?
For more than ten years, there are fewer and fewer people in a country, schools are closed, the news of the lonely death of the elderly frequently makes headlines, and the labor gap is supported by foreign workers and automation-isn't this the reality that is happening?
This is no longer a "crisis", but an ongoing one.
Japan is like a microcosm: highly civilized, highly developed, but also highly exhausted.
It has entered the "post-population era" ahead of schedule, and it has also reminded the whole world that some problems can be solved without money and technology.
Once the fertility rate falls, it’s hard to pull back and get up to heaven.It’s not a slogan, it’s an app that can change.
Or are we just looking back at another country?
When ageing becomes normal, when a generation is smaller than a generation, will we also follow the same path?
Musk's warning was ostensibly addressed to Japan, but in fact it was a heavy blow to all countries that ignore population issues.
No one's future, no matter how advanced technology is, it is just a cold number.
A country without children, a brilliant civilization, could end.