6/25/24

And since I am not a unique and beautiful snowflake, it is almost a guarantee that a desire to find alternative solutions to the traditional and caring way of helping provide companionship for aging parent is writ large on our culture.

So maybe CloudCare will work because there are hundreds of millions of people who, in the immortal words of Phobe Buffet “wish-they-could but don’t want to” give a dementia patient (or just someone aging in the normal fashion) their full attention all the time?

After all, “A Place for Mom” is the name of a successful line of care facilities, which are popular and well-run and good for patients by all accounts.

And, of course, jobs and culture and the modern economy of late-stage-capitalism is such that most people cannot end up taking on the traditional (in some cultures) youngest-daughter role and looking after their parents their whole lives.

It is possible that Confucian values are not just out-of-vogue, but also impossible for many in a world of seven billion people with life expectancies as long as they are?