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I suppose that the universal plight of the core audience is that management knows they can take you for granted and change the product away from your preferences, towards what they think some hypothetical marginal audience would like. The marginal audience probably barely exists, but management wants numbers to go up, so they convince themselves it does.
The bad policy voting bracket is back in my mind. Would it make sense to use specific policies? One from each major western country, for example. Agricultural collectivization seems to be exponentially worse than any of these, different order of magnitude of Bad Policy. These should be ordinary things wealthy countries do to shoot themselves in the foot.
Some ideas:
Rent control? Wonder which country had the most destructive one
German dismantling of nuclear industry
US: hospital certificates of need, or maybe the Jones Act?
Pension triple lock (UK)
Canada?
France?
Italy?
Others?
Ideas are welcome.
Hospice
Since Monday I've been in the UK staying with my uncle's family. He's late stage in cancer and in particularly rough shape after a recent surgery.
My main takeaway is that caring for someone in this state is overwhelmingly labor intensive in a way you just can't get until you do it. He's in hospital so his basic medical needs are being taken care of, but he can barely speak on his own. Needs his feet rubbed and his limbs physically moved, crust wiped off his lips, an intricate feeding process involving removing his oxygen mask, giving a sip of nutrient drink, replacing facemask. Feeding him one takes about twenty minutes. This is not mentioning things like just talking to him. Then there's advocating for him to the multiple medical teams, who are competent but overworked and barely coordinating with each other.
This occupies most of every day for his wife, his eldest son, my mother, and I. If we didn't do it he'd be alive but in horrible condition. Visiting hours end at 8PM and by the time we get home and eat dinner we are absolutely exhausted.
So to conclude:
1. Unless radical AI developments allow for complex physical medical care, the aging population is going to suck up radically more labor than you realize in a few decades or we will have to accept far worse standards of care for the badly I'll.
2. HAVE CHILDREN SO SOMEONE EXISTS WHO IS WILLING TO DO THIS FOR YOU BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT YOU, IDEALLY MULTIPLE CHILDREN TO SPLIT THE WORK.
doomed country lmfao
There's a bit of a gaslighting going on with government spending.
People say it isn't like running up a credit card bill because it's making important investments and funding public goods. Ok. But then you look inside and it's mostly dialysis for old people and inflation+ adjusted pensions for old people and tax credits for old people
Truly the type of post I follow Robin for