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People simultaneously seem scared of AI automating jobs, and of there being too many old people for young people to look after as they'd be too busy with jobs. Wouldn't those cancel each other out? (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My point stands: pay enough, and people will do the job, shitty as it is. Same as garbage sorters (all the garbage at my local landfill is sorted, with easy recyclables like aluminum being pulled out, manually; it's a shit job but they pay well).

If the money isn't there to pay well, that's a fault in the system itself, but I've seen enough of capitalist and especially American economics to know that the money probably is there, they just don't want to pay it. Whether it's the nursing homes themselves or the insurance companies doing the grifting doesn't actually matter; somebody is profiting, and profit is theft.