A generation of men have grown up thinking "well, I'd rather have the Blastoise."

There are going to be significant social implications, here, and I don't think anyone quite understands the gravity. Like, one way or another, society will have to be wholly reorganized around the mass of fighting-aged males who are slowly aging out of their chance at a legacy, and the mass of middle-aged females who already have and want the rest of the world to share their misery. This isn't a matter of "the economy is going to suck unless robots help mitigate demographics", it's a matter of absolutely everyone having increasingly large incentives to set everything on fire.

I still say the turning point will be Putin or Xi deciding to put XMR bounties on critical infrastructure.