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People who need care, because they have nobody anymore. Robots looking after them instead of humans. A dark kind of future.
Most of these robots are backed by humans working remotely
For most people it's a pretty dark present. I've seen enough elder care facilities to know that the "good" ones are super expensive and frankly people still aren't always treated that great. The "bad" ones (and this is most of them) are pretty damn awful. I have pretty strict language favoring death over these places in my living will for good reason. A robot that can offer consistent, non-biased, round the clock care would be a big win. Most of the people that work in these places are at or below poverty line and doing care tasks that are highly undesirable. They don't specifically higher assholes, but with this much home and life stressors people do not function at their best, and they will take this stress out on easy targets like the elderly. Freeing people up from routine care tasks should actually allow them to focus on more human and compassionate interactions with residents.
They should've thought of that before they stopped having children. /s
How can you be so wrong, yet so right?
Why's that dark? It's a free future. The young don't have to clean up after their elders anymore.
Personal human contact is still an important thing to have for one's mental health and wellbeing at any age, and that includes the elderly and the young interacting with each other You'd think that was an important societal lesson the isolated Covid years should have taught us. Do you not think that making robots do all the work of caring for the elderly at least gives off vibes of the young just tossing out the old? A robot can never provide the personal touch of care that a human can. When I get old the last thing I would want would be just to be sent to some "home" with my only contact being with machines and computers.
Of course, advancements in this tech won't stop humans from caring for the elderly. You can still care for ur grandpa. However, ur grandpa won't die if u don't.
Here's the best case scenario - you can be with ur grandpa, chat, play video games, do fun stuff. When it's time to change the diaper, a professional robot trained for this very purpose does the job.
I take it you're not planning on becoming a domiciliary nurse?