Not just emotional, but "sales" skills in general. Management means organizing within a system you can control. For sales (and sales can also mean selling yourself in the romantic market etc.) it's about influencing external decisions you can't directly control. That's quite a different skill set and neither management nor design. Marketing is design, but if you directly communicate with someone to sell something that's something different.
"Emotional" sounds too fuzzy, too much like EQ. Either calling it "relational" or "strategic" (because it depends on you being able to think from the other's POV to adjust your behavior to achieve your goals, even when it's just a toddler screaming)
The only optimistic case would be if robots get so good & cheap that they can do most of the maintenance / adjusting / eldercare works in rural areas and thus we're able to afford an aging population still living there based on general abundance.
If not, the feedback loop makes the situation much worse: the older the population in an area, the smaller the tax base and the more gets extracted by the government of the smart young people, who have even more incentive to move to the few places still attracting young people.
Immigration isn't a fix for that... (read more)