[Tax-chick]

Yes, Japan is an unusual situation, being both an island country and a culture that doesn’t readily accept immigrants. Robots can replace workers, to some extent, but they can’t replace taxpayers. Where will the money for the pensions come from?

And robots can’t easily replace nursing home workers, which Japan will need a lot of. Things will be interesting.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Actually, I believe that nursing homes will be amongst the first to “employ” humanoid robots. Even sooner, nursing home workers will probably be using robotic exoskeletons to to the hard jobs, such as lifting patients. Specialized robots are already on the job.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/1288241.html

[JasonC]

Or they could just sneeze, move 25% of their savings to the US and own our entire financial sector at today's prices, retire to Arizona and play golf.