China is becoming a social experiment - What happens to humans when all the jobs are done by robots?
An earlier experiment - One child policy. Legal abortion. The Chinese prefer boy babies so girl babies were aborted. Fast forward a few years you have a situation where there are more men then women. This has not completely played out so we don’t have results.
Now add to the mix, millions of jobless men...
What is China going to do?
Sounds like a recipe for China to have a bunch of expendable men to use in war. China's war won't be for oil or land. It'll be for women. LOL
So far, the most relevant comment here. Communist China will need its own chapter in future economics and social-science text books. Every commonly held Western economic notion of free-trade / international trade, market pricing, central banking, monetary-theory, central-planning, consumer behavior, etc... will have to be revised for China.
The underlying nature of human behavior and Natural Law has not changed, but when put through the furnace of Asian statism, Chinese Confucian paternalism and especially - Communist central-planning, atheism, materialism, social engineering and technological control - the results are absolutely bizarre and unseen.
Communist China is indeed a giant, never-before-seen human/social engineering experiment, taken to its limits.
One immediate consequence - the population in this giant social experiment is refusing to reproduce.