History: Korea's tallest tower at one point at its economic peak to show the world that Korean engineers can build skyscrapers, and to flip the bird at the Japs' Sunshine 60 tower for becoming the tallest building outside of North America.

Commendable and totally not petty behavior.

Then they clad it gold.

So it shines as a beacon on the Han River at sunrise. Not bad. Its cute. Its iconic.

But for 20 minutes FRICK YOU

Anyways, visit Seoul Sky instead. Its South Korea's current tallest building and the World's 5th tallest (so far) Has a cute elevator that goes all the way up very fast. You'll see it in the backgrounds of modern Kdrama

https://seoulsky.lotteworld.com/en/main/index.do

Its also RIGHT next to Seoul's Disneyland aka "Lotte World" go on dates there. Pick up chicks there. Hire an escort, have her wear no panties and inexplicably take her to Seoul Sky and see if anyone notices that she is not wearing panties because the floor is super-reflective and clear glass floors so people are always looking down and annoyed at other peoples reflections.

Totally not paid by Seoul's Tourism Board to lure waygooks to breed the women.

!architecture !asians

• Tojo must "maintain a certain distance" from her boyfriend

• As punishment, she must post a "solo good night photo" every night for a year

• Fans are encouraged to report any suspicions of her boyfriend appearing in these photos

After scanning the biometrics, the FBI has learned the true identity of the shooter:

!pinoypride

China's robot density went from 97 to 372 per 10,000 workers in the manufacturing industry iin the course of 5 years. Unlike what happened with Japan, South Korea and China are both prepared for their population decline. It isn't the population decline that would crush the Chinese economy, if anything, it would be the property market ( which makes up 30% of Chinese GDP ) collapse that is at higher risk of crashing the Chinese economy.

https://ifr.org/news/china-robot-installations-grew-by-44-percent

China is all in on optimizing for as many robots as they can fit in every nook and cranny. Nobody is more enthusiastic about putting in more manufacturing robots than China and South Korea.

China's robot density will easily cross that of Germany and Japan by the end of the decade.

Currently South Korea with the highest robot density in the world is growing at a rate of above 2% per year still.

If ever increasing automation can keep South Korean economy afloat, then it can also keep Chinese economy afloat.

Currently 29.1% of China's workforce is in the manufacturing sector. China at current rates could easily replace all those workers with automation before those workers end up leaving the job sector.

Chinese AI is also only a few years behind the US, far back enough to be unable to compete with the US as number 1, but ahead enough that they can also carry their own loop of AI, GPU, and semiconductor industry growth leading to ever better AI systems across China.

There is no doubt that Chinese GDP growth will fall as low as 3%, but there is very limited likelihood of it falling as low as 1%.

Automation has made it impossible for nation states economy to collapse due to population decline in the nation states that participate in mass automation of their industries.

Robotics is to physical labor what computer software was to paperwork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)

FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been a lights-out factory since 2001.[6] Robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time. "Not only is it lights-out," says Fanuc vice president Gary Zywiol, "we turn off the air conditioning and heat too."[6][7]

The future is here, and it has made global population loss meaningless and the requirement for unskilled labor meaningless.

China is going to survive, and the only way to beat it is going to be to out compete it by the west, which means remaining competitive for decades to come and making actual product that has utility.

Conclusion:

China's industrial robotics market is growing at a far faster rate than the population decline in China. This means that China's collapse will not occur due to population loss over time irrespective of demographics. China's property market is the biggest risk to the Chinese economy currently, along with yearly flooding that China hasn't solved for so far.

Edit:

According to an MGI report, AI-led automation can give the Chinese economy a productivity injection that would add 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points to GDP growth annually, depending on the speed of adoption.

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/China/Artificial%20intelligence%20Implications%20for%20China/MGI-Artificial-intelligence-implications-for-China.ashx

I'm trending right now on Reddit in one of the largest subreddits with over 8 million users. (r/facepalm)

The thousands of comments completely agree with me.

Here are some true stories of Asian friends & families brutalized but ignored because it didn't fit the narrative: 🧵 pic.twitter.com/tDb9SE83Ta

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) July 9, 2024

second richest high-fertility country in the world after israel

US has 9x the rate of antidepressant use as South Korea. People often use stats like this to criticize America, but considering South Korea is setting record lows for family formation and childbearing maybe they need to be more medicated. pic.twitter.com/HROvN0KWwp

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 20, 2024

Right because we all know that daily Zoloft is going to get rid the negativism and hypercompetitiveness in an Asian society

Hooray, more babies exposed to SSRIs in utero!

Handy facts: 1) Many Korean women choosing not to have children – favouring career instead and/or put off by cost and/or illegality same s*x marriage, 2) antidepressants known to negatively effect sexuality/ fertility?

[The

@US_FDA

was recently sued for failing to warn that SSRIs and SNRIs can cause potentially irreversible sexual dysfunction (#PSSD). There is also evidence from animal studies that these drugs may permanently impair fertility.](https://x.com/PSSDNetwork/status/1803846560033247629)

!pinoypride I will start sharing my favorite OPM radio hits. This is a forlorn love song (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hanggang-kailan-until-when.html) from a very popular 2000s band. It gets played daily on the most popular radio stations on Luzon.