I'm in favour...
as one of the people who will be over 75 in 2040 (assuming I last that long) I would rather be at home with a reliable, capable robot than potentially sharing my house with a carousel of minimum-wage strangers/carers who I will feel guilty for imposing on and may be vulnerable to abuse from.
The slight fly in the ointment that I can't shake is that somehow a mass-produced robot which is robust enough yet gentle enough to care for me in my crusty years and sufficiently sophisticated not to stick my hand in the toaster rather than a slice of bread will be cost-effective to buy, repair as necessary and keep up to date in a domestiv environment compared to previously mentioned minimum-wage slaves. Or will I just be swapping the carers for a carousel of minimum-wage robot engineer operatives who know how to swap a motherboard in between beating me to find out where my money is hidden?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
