afigkka

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   Ask HN: How does your company plan work?

   4 points by afigkka 4y ago|1 comments
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   by afigkka 4y ago

   I live in a shared house with a doctor who earns <£4k a month and works 60 hours a week most care staff are on £12 an hour where I live a care home ratio of 1 staff to 6 members is good, (1 nurse + 3 carers to 30 people is not uncommon f
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   by afigkka 4y ago

   government involvement is the root of the problem, care used to be familial and community responsibility which we abandoned. I'm already paying the highest average tax rate since the war to pay for current pensions that are unfunded an
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   by afigkka 4y ago

   I don't think it has to scale though, maybe it can but it might just perpetuate poor conditions for care workers I think it could be as simple as a few standardised processes and contracts. If a village wants to try it they follow the
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   by afigkka 4y ago

   in the UK most villages/small towns without a school have very old residents with no real village population replacement (people die of old age and the big old cold houses are bought by increasingly wealthy retirees leaving urban envir
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   by afigkka 4y ago

   on hardware my understanding is that industry is the closest thing we now have to the computer boom before personal computers. Off the shelf products sold by retailers are pretty poor and not cheap with acceptable margin, often get hacked b