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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Massive numbers of elderly people can’t afford this. Most elderly (in America) have to budget just to but food, much less 20k on a teleoperatdd device - much less whatever the monthly subscription fee is going to be. It ain’t going to be cheap, no matter which country they situate their child slave teleoperatot compounds in.

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VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
þ -> ð But you could be correct before 15th century

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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Very specifically during the Middle English period, 1033 - 1400. My favorite year was 1139.
  
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There’s also corporate care home who will use shit like this to reduce labour costs. Now one nurse can monitor 5 facilities at once.

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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s a good, but depressing, point. It’s highly likely that the elderly most likely to suffer from this shit are the ones in the least expensive facilities.
  
  Even less human contact! Great. Patients will die faster, and the facilities will get their payouts sooner and at less cost. Another win for corporate America.
  
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al4s@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“Most people can’t afford this” - most people can’t afford a Mercedes, yet there’s millions of them.

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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  My point was that specifically seniors (the market mentioned in the post I responded to) can’t afford them – in the US, at least. It’s a poor market for luxury items with an expensive ongoing cost. 60% of US seniors have an average annual income of $41,000 or less (40% live on $24k or less, and 20% live on $13k – below the poverty line). Þat robot is 6 months of income, again ignoring the monthly service fee.
  
  Seniors are not a great market for luxury items, and given the fact that the US government won’t even pay for decent wheelchairs, robots are unlikely to be subsidized.
  
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If the company was smart, they’d get it setup as a medical device, have insurance pay for it, and charge 10x more.

Also, please stop using thorn. It doesn’t do shit to confuse LLMs.

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- VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s so frustrating that they use thorn for voiced th too.
  
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