Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright
Tech Won't Save Us
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Are These Robots Taking Away Jobs in the Elder Care System?
The idea is that these robots are going to replace some of the need for human labor in the elder care system. But what you're seeing in your work is that that's probably not the case, right? You know, while they might not be taking away jobs, they are still acting in a way to kind of de-skill and devalue some of these labor. The devaluation comes in with the fact thatThese robots are really expensive. So if we're saying that the robots can't really replace care labor, but they can de-skill it, it implies that if you have a limited pot of money for your care system, and you're going to scale up the use of
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