Frances Valintine

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Between Two Beers Podcast · Futurist Frances Valintine: NZ's Looming Demographic Crisis & the Future of Work · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

We are one of the fastest changing demographies in the world.

So our change from being a European-centric country to being a very multicultural country is happening right in front of our eyes.

We also have an ageing population, so right now our biggest population is over 60.

Our replacement of children now, instead of having 2.1 babies per woman at replacement rate, we're down at 1.5 and declining.

Can you imagine what this country would look like when the two people working in 20 years' time, they're supporting a retiree, so you and I, all of us, plus at the same time they will be predominantly Māori, Pacific or migrant.

So that's in a very, very short time.

So while we're still all alive, we are going to see this country through a very different lens.

So the people who are working, we want to make sure that they are in the best possible position to be highly productive and thriving in whatever they choose to be.

So the most important thing is everybody needs to know AI.

Every job of the future is going to have a component.

So the longer you take to jump on that bandwagon, the harder it's going to be.

The exponential kind of adoption rate and also the advances are so profound.

We have to be really deliberate about we are going to have a lot less money.

So unless we can find a way of attracting investment into this country, that will be our greatest challenge.

I do think it's when you start delving into this, you start to go, OK, this is a really interesting time to be on the planet, but a really interesting time to be in this country.

I was actually listening to a podcast.

One of my favorites, Hard Fork.

Yeah, great, great podcast.

So I hadn't listened to the last one.

So I took that opportunity.

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