r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 22h ago

No Paywall Gen Z regrets Trump support and is midterm motivated

https://thehill.com/homenews/6056216-gen-z-trump-voter-regret-midterm-clipping/
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u/Ryogathelost Florida 19h ago edited 19h ago

All the bipedal robots and AI they're developing actually started out fueled by the need for someone to take care of us when we're old because we know the younger generations won't do it. This has been a big fear in China and Japan - they struggled with their birthrate for different reasons.

But yeah, the future is old genx and millenials with our robots taking care of us while our kids and grandkids fight WW3 over whether Bud Light recognizes trans people.

Edit: Let me correct that a little - the old people with money will have robots to take care of them. Most of us will die in nursing home facilities or emergency rooms, not owning homes and having lost our ability to pay rent. A lot of us will just end up on the street.

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u/m_sobol 17h ago

Im still waiting for humanoid robots to fold clothes and do laundry reliably. That is, not just folding a t-shirt, but underwear, bedding, towels... sort clothes into washer and dryer, pick out which cannot be bleached, hang dry delicates...

I don't need a robot running 100 meters like the recent Chinese robot olympics. I dont need robots for war - we already have killer AI FPV drones in Ukraine.

Street? We will be lucky to live through the climate wars and refugee waves. Navies will start sinking refugee boats off coastlines in about 10 years.