You’re forgetting those eye watering return charts they will be promising. The government will probably give them kickbacks or something similar to get it established at first. They have definitely done this in the past to help businesses (Texas Instruments, Foxxcon, Amazon, Volkswagen and many others they spend about $200 billion a year doing that)

Also when someone dies they don’t get buried Egypt style with their robot, that unit would be the property of the company/insurance/facility and go to the next person. Although I will admit mortality rates among elderly is something I didn’t consider but disabled and injured or otherwise handicapped people will be the customer base as well.

And I don’t know if I said it in this comment or the other one but getting them into facilities/hospitals will absolutely be the end goal of all this but they have to go slow and test it all out first which is why I think getting them into homes will be the first goal.

Also to add more to this, the 15¢ savings was just me being cynical the actual savings will be a lot more significant but the subscription model they will undoubtedly attach to something like this will be the real money maker I’m guessing they’ll charge it annually and I bet it’ll be quit expensive.

“Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.””

Taking it down brick by brick one step at a time.

Its because its essentially an ad and presented that way.

Land of the free!*

*Terms apply.

Welcome to the police state. Its been many years in the making but now they are perfecting it.

As soon as it really started gaining any kind of traction to be comparable in size and scope to the government forces they would try to kill everyone involved. And I hope wouldn’t succeed but…

They don’t give a fuck about what the constitution says, sadly.

And sure sure National Guard someone will say LOL they’ve killed us before and they’ll do it again because they are still government controlled.

That’s usually for people who trade crypto so they stable up during dips or whatever then buy back in.

Personally I think it defeats the whole purpose of a decentralized currency to have it tied to a Fiat dollar. Would be more beneficial to have it tied to a resource of some sort or something similar for some semblance of “stability”. In my opinion, of course.

But that’s just the problem isn’t it? You highlighted yourself how untrustworthy the US government is.

So what if you live here dude? Can’t easily get Euros and shit although gold and silver is an option for now until they pass a law banning gold again like they absolutely did before.

So what then? Put it all into their dollar? Fuck man idk. I definitely hate memecoins and shit but crypto as a whole doesn’t really seem like that bad of an idea to me. You can hide it a lot easier than gold and silver and they can’t bring a sniffer dog that will find bitcoin in the backyard.

Sure they have electronics smelling dogs but if you memorize a seed phrase and don’t write it down its yours forever so far they can’t read your mind and extract it from you short of torture but even then they have to know prior that you had it before and that you didn’t forget the seed phrase.

I agree crypto has a lot of scammers and ignorant shit attached to it, but I also agree that blindly putting ALL of your eggs into the fiat basket isn’t the best idea either. I think diversifying between certain (definitely not all) cryptocurrency and gold and silver is the best bet. I know I know people will hate me for saying that but damn I don’t understand why people know to hate the government but LOVE their money and don’t ever question that at all.

Edited to add: I’m gonna be real if I lived in a nice stable country with a government I respected and felt like respected me and their allies around the world I probably wouldn’t fuck with crypto. But I don’t. Along with millions of other people.

When they use some bullshit app to scan my face and say I’m not a citizen while throwing away my papers and licenses proving I am and ship me to some even worse shithole country and freeze my bank accounts and take all my gold I could still have that seed phrase memorized that they never knew about.

And wow, turns out the impoverished country I’d go to would accept the crypto for payments because they know even better not to put all their eggs in the government issued bank note basket.

Why do people hate that truth so much? Because there are bad people that exploit it? Shit dawg, how do you think the US Dollar got dominance?

Oh man I want VIABLE Linux phones to be a thing so so bad.

I love Graphene but Google just makes it harder and harder for them to do what they do and eventually I’m afraid they will find a way to shut most of their functionality down completely. Despite how graphene has discovered critical vulnerabilities many many times over the years and helped Google by immediately disclosing them.

Linux phones need to happen and I would love to see it happen soon.

Because this is much easier to exploit than people you have to pay fairly. Sad, but very true.

Like everything else in America the value of capital is the only thing that matters! See the healthcare system as it is right now if you need proof of that.

Yes it is depressing and dystopian and frankly super fucked up.

Which yes, leads to a win for corporate America. Land of the free!! They will remind you.

See, this guy gets it.

Its all about extracting every single penny possible and stretching what employees you do have to pay to the maximum limits achievable.

Once they figure out they can get these in every home and force people to pay the subscription fees that will climb up in price forever and ever until the heat death of the universe they will make sure every single elderly person that wants one has them in their home.

This will be easy to subsidize because they will exploit overseas labor forces by paying them pennies on the dollar of what they have to pay anyone in America or UK or Canada and the charts for long term growth through the subscription model will be eye watering.

Mix this in with exploiting the industrial labor force of places like China and Vietnam and Taiwan and this thing probably costs them $5K or less to make per robot.

Remember it costs the CONSUMER $20K, not the dickheads in suits doing all the number punching and the businesses they work for.

Keep in mind that by doing this they essentially will be able to end home care work for most people except very qualified specialists that not every one will have to use. And even then they will still have this thing doing laundry and dishes for them while the specialist only does certain specialized actions maybe like testing or something similar the robot won’t be able to do.

But think of the future potential, they will remind you at the business meetings! “Eventually this will be able to take those jobs over too and even eventually after that will be able to do open heart surgery and we can charge the HOSPITALS the exorbitant subscription fees indefinitely. We just need to be the first ones to dominate the market”

Doesn’t matter if it’s overhyped or even a bit untrue, see how AI companies operate.

Ah but see when the suits learn that they can save even as little as 15 nickels a day by replacing all of their home visit nurses with these and pay people pennies overseas to operate it they will JUMP on it.

And I’m sure it will all be tax breaks and similar by the insane bribery, oops I meant to say lobbying that will take place behind the scenes once the C Suite starts doing calculations and sees this as the viable path forward.

You underestimate how much greed will play a part in this process. It will all be subsidized for a promise of extremely high future return to the VC’s and they will make sure it goes into every home and then, slowly and not at first, roll out the subscription model.

There is no shortage of a worldwide low wage labor force that can be exploited and can learn to do anything though.

Not saying I support exploitation of workers, but its a true statement.

There’s a reason all the call centers go to other countries that don’t pay people very fairly. This will be no different.

Its probably not going to require certification and stuff like that I’ll be willing to bet because it is going to be a loophole that they don’t need it to operate the robot.

This is all just a guess, but I bet you it will work out like that. By the time this really gets cooking and streamlined AI will probably have taken over most of the call centers anyway so all those employees will jump on a chance to be a part of this and it wouldn’t be too much different than learning how to play a video game or something similar.

For sure. Imagine if your grandma fell and couldn’t get to a phone fuck a life alert this thing can call emergency services immediately and in the maybe not so distant future drive her to the hospital itself.

I do agree that it could be a privacy concern but the benefits for certain use cases like as you described far outweighs any privacy concerns.

Not if you live in the US I bet they’ll slap your ass with a 150% import tax fee or some ignorant shit.

Just like how they did with their EV’s.

Good ol’ “free markets” and all of that.