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Instead of building robots, perhaps we should allow low cost care workers to help immobile people. These care workers can be sourced locally or abroad (immigran
by techie128 6y ago
Instead of building robots, perhaps we should allow low cost care workers to help immobile people. These care workers can be sourced locally or abroad (immigrants). Boom. You've just lifted someone out of poverty and helped an immobile human get a live human care taker.
- pjc50 6y agoAll well and good until a pandemic comes along.
- techie128 6y agoLive-in caregivers are not going to increase the chances of infection. Other types of caregivers may.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoWhy the focus on low cost and immigrants? There's millions of people in your country (and I don't even know where you live) that live below the poverty line or are unemployed. Open up jobs, pay a decent wage, and stop this line of thought about exploiting people as much as possible for as little money as possible.
- techie128 6y agoWhy are you equating low cost with exploitation? Why focus on the immigrants when my post _clearly_ mentioned local or immigrants? It is also very disingenuous for you to remark about my location. Clearly, Hacker News is US/Silicon Valley centric. My comment was pointing out that Silicon Valley engineers need to get their heads out of their asses and look at the unemployment not only in the US but rest of the world. Caregiving is a great job for those who don't have a job. More importantly, SV seems to be forgetting the human component of care giving. A robot _cannot_ possibly take the place of an actual human. It's just not the same.
- kwhitefoot 6y ago> Why are you equating low cost with exploitation? Probably because low cost always seems to mean low income, low status, long hours, and insecure employment.