Subnostr

Direct care workers seem to be copping most of the flak in the media around this, but from my experience most of the inefficiency is in over-administration and ties with the housing market as you mention.

I've seen care teams with 4-5 levels of management. Each of them not providing care themselves but getting paid close to $100 / hr for pointless meetings and phone calls.

I've seen care organisations turn into political ideology machines, completely losing the point of what their business was about. They are incentivised for there to be more disabled people in the community, and politically advocate recognition of new disabilities.

The growth in direct care does make sense if you're in the fiat clown world. As we move forward with ai and robotics I expect the definition of "disabled" to broaden, and more jobs to be printed in parallel:

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StackSats.IO 1y ago

Fair summary.

It’s the single worst system I have ever seen in action from the Australian government which is really saying something.

There are people who no doubt need care but they’ve set it up as an unaccountable money printer to funnel money to broaden their base, and people are just doing what the incentives point to - rort the shit out of it while you can and there’s basically no punishment for doing so.

It will be funny if they can’t rein it in and the country is bought down by the disabled though..

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SteadyTech 1y ago

100% it's saying something 😂 because it's everywhere, just maybe to lesser extents...

Almost everywhere I look, even areas that look like a free market on the surface, the companies that do the best are those that land government contracts building things that nobody asked for, and consistently blowing out budgets with little accountability 😂

We can laugh because we're on the life-raft I guess...