Will you still need me?
Call it "peak toil"
By S.C. | HONG KONG
ON FRIDAY, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that China's working-age population shrank last year. In the slow-moving world of demographics, that felt like a dramatic turning point: "peak toil", if you like. The mobilisation of Chinese labour over the past 35 years has shaken the world. Never before has the global economy benefited from such a large addition of human energy.
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