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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: 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.