This race to the bottom is going to result in 25 to 30% unemployment. Once you get to those numbers it's only a matter of time before wars start. The threat of nuclear annihilation can only do so much. Sooner or later a religious nut job will convince people that God will protect them.
Before that the police will collapse and you're going to have bandits. There are 400k cops in America. When the economy collapses you can bet there won't be money to keep 400k cops. Even if there was they can't protect you from 40 or 50 million people with nothing to lose.
Remember you have to kill every single one of them but they only have to kill you once.
That would be a good time to get over all the culture war bullshit we are obsessed with and figure out a solution to this problem.
So now I feel obliged to quote you against the censor trolls, though I don't even see what part of your comment ticked off the sock puppets. In particular, I don't see any basis for your magic estimate of 25-30% unemployment. Rather I think the super-rich super-greedy sociopaths calling the shots can't be satiated with all the income from 25-30% of the population. I don't even think they are concerned about relative wealth or how much of their money has become completely imaginary. But I think it's easier to map their extreme indifference to the "right to life" as it doesn't matter to them when the lives belong to poor peasants. Healthcare as some kind of human right? No, they only want it for themselves and the only reason any of the peasants should get any healthcare is as guinea pigs to develop better medical treatments for themselves. I would have included as a stock of organ donors, but I think medical care is passing beyond that stage now--and I would even speculate that some of the worst of them have secret clones of themselves...
Now about the question of authenticity of the story. First, the story apparently comes from a website I've never heard of. Second, it seems to be exactly the kind of story that would get coverage on Japanese TV and I've yet to see any mention of it. Third, based on my experience with network connectivity to and from Japan I find it difficult to believe they could keep the telebots working on a steady basis. If the telebots have enough local AI-based pseudo-intelligence, then they could cover for some of the network lapses, but that would make them expensive.
I also noticed a racist comment about not replacing workers because they weren't born--but exactly the same argument can be applied to the customers. Rather I think Japan is moving to new heights of xenophobia, though the new prime minister would never admit it (except as silent belly speak AKA haragei). They did a bit of biographical reporting on her on yesterday's news and I was quite surprised to find out she worked for a Democratic politician in Colorado. The name rang a bell, but it turns out she died in 2023...