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Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and other everyday activities.
Friends and relatives often can't do all the work. Growing evidence indicates it's neither sustainable nor healthy for seniors or their loved ones. Yet demand for professional caregivers already far outstrips supply, and experts say this workforce shortage will only get worse.
So how will our society bridge this elder-care gap? In a word, robots.
Just as automation has begun to do jobs previously seen as uniquely suited for humans, like retrieving goods from warehouses, robots will assist your elderly relatives.
Would you entrust grandma to Johnny 5?
(Score: 1, Troll) by crafoo on Tuesday August 29 2017, @12:39PM (5 children)
Now that the Greatest Generation and their children are finished strip-mining the future it's time to put those good for nothing kids to work wiping elder assholes. They should be thankful for the job. Lazy whiner cowards. If they wanted something better they should have worked harder! After all, we did our part. We partied. We sold out the country to jewish corporations. We demoralized the youth, mortgaged their future, and then set up a system of convenient debt-slavery to investment banks! We tried to give corporations complete control with NAFTA and TPP but those little fuckers voted the second time around! I tell you what, that's gratitude for you, you know?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @02:52PM (2 children)
You know, there's no better way to damage a valid argument than throwing in a bit of disproportionate antisemitism into the mix. I mean, if you're going to complain about selling out, shouldn't you have started off with Chinese sweatshops, Japanese automakers, Belgium & other Euro-trash tax evaders, Saudi oil princes, Brazilian drug lords and oil barons, Swiss bankers and so on? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Composition_of_U.S._Long-Term_Treasury_Debt_2000-2014.svg [wikipedia.org]
Really, what you're saying is mostly valid... It's just that you need to get your priorities in order. "jewish corporation" might get an up-vote from some hicks and teens, but it's no better than selling indulgences. It's damaging misinformation that prevents people from identifying and resolving the real issues at hand. Whenever some fool goes around blaming one minority or the next, nothing gets done. Is there something in the law so preferential to Jews or Blacks that it screwed the whole economy? What we have is bought-and-paid-for tax code. Regulation tailored for big corporations. Copyright laws preventing competition. Healthcare that drives you to bankruptcy... Fix all that crap and then we'll evaluate how much minorities are to blame.
(Score: 1) by crafoo on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:20PM (1 child)
Maybe instead of dismissing it out of hand you should do a bit of research into who owns and controls the majority of investment banks and media corporations.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:27PM
Generally speaking, the person making the claim is expected to provide evidence for it.
I see that you've already moved the goalposts from "corporations" to "banks and media" but I bet you can't even prove that reduced scope.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @03:20PM
I agree with the other AC. You were going good until you worried only about Jewish corporations. I'm not sure what makes a corporation Jewish to be honest. Corporations are immortal, transnational, incorporeal (can't be jailed), sociopathic legal fictions. Don't just be concerned about the “Jewish” ones. Be concerned about the Christian and Moslem corporations as well. Be concerned about the atheist corporations. Again, I don't know what would make a corporation any of those things. If you have criteria you apply to determine these things, that's great. However, I would encourage you to focus more on the immortal, transnational, incorporeal, and sociopathic aspects of corporations and instead of limiting your vision to only one subset of the problem.
Plus, as the other AC mentioned, people might think you're an anti-Semite, which works against you. Be an anti-corporatite instead.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:44PM
Feels good living in a world with a decreasing standard of living.
Thanks Boomers!
I really wish millennials could pay into social security but not pull from it, end this scourge with our generation taking the largest hit. Rather do that then pass the buck to my kids.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam