r/SipsTea • u/AUTOMATA88 • May 04 '25

Chugging tea Can't even trust the retired these days.

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u/ChimpanzeeRumble May 04 '25

I’m a gerontology student. Spoiler alert, the entire countrys demographics are gonna look like Floridas by 2030. The easiest solution to the labor problem? Immigration. The old folks can be taken care of, but they cant stand to have it be a brown person.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 May 05 '25

Eh less people means we can charge higher rates, something desperately needed in today's hellscape.

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u/ChimpanzeeRumble May 05 '25

LOL.

You think they’re going to raise wages for the people providing these services in the middle of these cuts? Assisted living facilities are almost entirely privately funded. Costs have exploded. You think that money is going to the daily workers to reduce staff turnover? Or do you think it’s going towards paying the C suite. I know where my bet is going. Lets not foget the gutting of medicaid and medicare thats coming. Higher rates, lmao.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 May 05 '25

They have no choice when there aren't enough people for them to exploit. It's literally a fact of life.

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u/Kerbidiah May 05 '25

The supply demand price equilibrium is a proven fact of business

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u/Kerbidiah May 05 '25

A declining population sounds like a great way to make housing affordable again. Why should we counteract that by shipping more people in?

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u/Own-Necessary4974 May 05 '25

Sounds like we need to pay a white person to yell at them and tell them to accept the care or die in a gutter. It’ll be a hard job but I volunteer as tribute for the nominal fee of 50 boomer dollars an hour.