Kind of interesting to me that as much of the West places all their faith in AI to solve its problems, they forget the one thing it can’t do - care for people - is also it’s next great crisis it’s completely unprepared for
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it’s interesting to me that Japan is a lot quieter now about trying to get past its current crisis of demographics and elder care using AI and robotics, but also stubbornly refuses to loosen immigration rules to induce more foreign carers to come to Japan.
Can only speak about the UK in this regard of course - where there is already an under supply of carers, many of whom now face uncertain futures as anti immigration politics continues to advance /
There is basically no way to fill that supply domestically in the short run. I imagine attempts to get millennials/zoomers to be carers for their relatives also is challenged by the ongoing housing crisis
All of which is to say that perhaps all the continued austerity will really come home to roost when boomers and older X’ers can’t afford to be in for profit care homes, nor have access to carers independently. Has anything good been written on this?
Honestly, they're just going to have to take care of themselves.
This is the world they built, all in their favour. They left nothing for everyone younger than them.
I just hope their multiple "retirement investment" properties can look after them.
As far as I can tell publications aren’t allowed to consider the issue too much because it holds the mirror up to global capitalism’s contradictions - I did see this middling Japanese movie about one take on What Is To Be Done https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_75
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This is the world they built, all in their favour. They left nothing for everyone younger than them.
I just hope their multiple "retirement investment" properties can look after them.