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Doesn't take much imagination given that substantial parts of the developed world haul their parents into nursing homes where care is outsourced to the market.
by Barrin92 3y ago
Doesn't take much imagination given that substantial parts of the developed world haul their parents into nursing homes where care is outsourced to the market. The communal, familial support system is already gone.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoNursing homes still need to be staffed, and staffing them 24/7 requires a lot of staff.
- taylodl 3y agoWhatever happened to Toyota's palliative care robots? Remember about 15 years ago when they were doing all those demos and said they'd have them out within 10 years and would be $15,000?? Honestly, even if they were $50,000 it'd still be a lot cheaper than a nursing home and would allow people to live at home.
- coldtea 3y agoWhy not just killbots? Much less dystopian than a future of elders left alone to be tended by palliative care robots.
- sixstringtheory 3y agoYou think that, given a robot, it’s more dystopian to have it care for someone, vs kill them? Weird.
- coldtea 3y agoI "think" that I was being sarcastic, the point being that a future of elders left to rot in the care of robots is dystopic in itself, and might even be less preferable than euthanasia for some, and that a future that doesn't involve care robots or kill robots would be preferable altogether...
- taylodl 3y agoThese things need to be handled delicately. There's no reason a palliative care robot can't become a "killer" robot when the time is ready. It can be very friendly about it, too. Of course we'll leave it to rumors whether this ever actually happens, as nobody should ever really know that soylent green is people.