TIL: Shrinking Caregivers

Today, an estimated 34.2 million people provide unpaid care to those 50 and older. These caregivers, about 95% family, and long the backbone of the nation’s long-term care system, provide an estimated $500 billion worth of free care annually—three times Medicaid’s professional long-term care spending—and help keep people out of costly institutions, according to a 2017 Merrill Lynch study.

But the supply of these caregivers is shrinking just as the nation needs them most. Every day, 10,000 people turn 65. In 2020, there will be 56 million people 65 and older, up from 40 million in 2010.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-running-out-of-family-caregivers-just-when-it-needs-them-most-1532094538

We are going to have a longevity epidemic.

What about the server?

Even the WSJ has to explain (5 min video) the BS our so-called president spreads both nationally and internationally.
https://www.wsj.com/video/decoding-trump-comments-about-email-servers/C7769547-A209-4EEA-B723-E422C1E6575E.html

He probably thinks that on the world's stage everybody in his audience is as dumb as the трамповата on his Iowa political rallies.

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"Don Quixote's insanity puts him above and beyond the law.... And being insane, he accepts no law."

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“All of which exempts and frees you from every respect and obligation, and so you can say whatever you like about this history, without any fear of being attacked for a hostile judgement or rewarded for a favourable one.”

Miguel de Cervantes. “Don Quixote.”

Art liberates because it lets adults play with ideas, characters, and circumstances. We are free to discuss actions and gossip about imaginary personas without much fear of being right or wrong. It's social through and through. For most people, politics used to be the same: a game of idle chit-chat, an occasion to socialize and entertain make-belief plays about the world's powerful celebrities.

I'm afraid we're losing this ability for this kind of idle entertainment because politicians want social media followers with donations, not amused spectators. Even TV ratings are built on advertising revenue, which stimulates polarization and market segmentation. More importantly, remote politicians with their flawed decision processes are redistributing our rights, mostly through zero-sum logic, either real or perceived. We have to judge and be judged. There's very little safe playspace left for adults.

I want to hear from a new Cervantes. Or at least, new J.K. Rowling.