I agree with you that as automation takes all the jobs, child and elder care will be the work everyone shifts to. I think we should be doing more of this now. B

I agree with you that as automation takes all the jobs, child and elder care will be the work everyone shifts to. I think we should be doing more of this now. Better elder care would help keep people on their right meds and could greatly reduce healthcare costs. Better child "care" could be lots of things but will lead to healthier, smarter, more inquisitive children that will become self supporting and out of bad paths saving society more there as well. I think one thing that people miss slightly is that some of this is our own fault. Everyone is heavy on the chase (me incl.) of things. We want full meals in a box at our door without the annoyance of doing any work for it. Some of our need for extra work and both adults working comes from our demand that we have a huge house and two new cars and two huge vacations and everyone has an iPhone X and on and on. You have to either work more or spend less and we've generally chosen work more. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with that but we need to accept the consequences.