Policy knobs can be used to determine how resources are allocated and, perhaps most importantly, the kind of resources. There's a lot of elder-care that is fun

Policy knobs can be used to determine how resources are allocated and, perhaps most importantly, the kind of resources. There's a lot of elder-care that is fundamentally non-scalable and non-automatable. But there's also a lot that is. Policy can both incentivize development of / investment in the latter and paying people competitive wage and benefits to step up and work the former. Meanwhile, with productivity per person higher than it's ever been thanks to general industrial and service automation, there should be more GDP than ever free to invest in such social programs.