dewey_mcbrewster
@dewey_mcbrewster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 week ago:
My grade in business, just a few weeks ago…
My post is supposed to illustrate some baseline. I used just an off-the-cuff, arbitrary yet heuristic figure from my experience working in, of all things, elderly care. I was a nurses aide and certified as a one-on-one for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, helping the nurses feed and bathe, keeping the patients occupied…. Walking walking walking… and not falling out of bed etc.
I did this for 5 years.
So if you are running a business, and you have nurse employees, there are expenses, overhead, risks, and profit to take for your efforts. What should that number be? I picked 20% in the hopes someone would give perhaps a more realistic figure. Instead I get cut down.
And no, Im not copy and pasting anything.
What strikes me is, who can pay 3000 a month to watch granny? and that was just nurse salary, not meds, housing, etc. My numbers are made up, I chose 22 per hour for nurse pay, I have no idea what it really is, just wanted to get to get something going and im looking for others to post more data, though the conclusion will probably be the same… its a no win situation unless you’re extremely wealthy, granny dies.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 week ago:
I was thinking more like 20 percent markup as a profit margin. Other fees not included yet
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 week ago:
Well, let’s look at the math briefly.
First, what should a nurse make?
Add 20% cut to this for your risk and management.
Then, how many people should the nurse care for?
(Nurse pay * 1.20)/patients=cost per patient
(22*1.20)/5=5.28 per hour 24 hours per day So 126.72 a day Roughly 3,8000 a month per patient just for nurse care. Not including housing, utilities, food, or medication.
Alternatives could be mandatory civic or military duty at 18 for a few years and nursing duty could be in there?
Another alternative could be inmate care, paying minimum wage in municipal bonds, as a way to work off a sentence?
Pay nurses less, requiring less certification?
Outsource nursing to countries where wage arbitrage can be leveraged?
Obviously this was fast and dirty but illustrates the expense.
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 2 weeks ago:
Local stores have very little locked up here. My area has industry, which provides wages. Wages produce taxes. Taxes are used for police. Through surveilance police arrest shoplifters.
Complacency only back-slides society. I will agree that a waning industry does as well, or that our hyper-fixation on growth is bad, but that’s another discussion.
If someone offers a free item, someone will take it whether they need that item or not, whether they can afford that item or not. Nature takes the path of least resistance. It’s easier to take than to work.
As such, there is no incentive to work if the item is free. If there is no incentive to work nothing gets made. Yet people will need things so you’re forced to make items people need. Which makes items not really free after all to the dismay of many an anti-capitalist.
Regardless there will always be some percentage of the population that will feel above the rest, mainly due to mental deficiency or addiction, independent of the economic system. For punishment of theft I would prefer to see forced induction into the municipal workforce for 5 years, flat sentence with a minimum wage earned in municipal bonds, held in a community barracks with a tapered reintegration into society. A sort of forced communism for those who can’t cope.
I’m ready for the downvotes.
- Comment on 👐 aliens. 5 months ago:
Many many years ago, I had returned home. Think rural country road, cinder block garage a few yards off a dusty road, separate from the house, with a single industrial lamp burning a 100 watt bulb swarmed by moths and insects. The night is heavy, hot and humid. Like I’ve done many nights I would walk to the other side of the road to take a leak in the bushes and as I was finishing up… What the hell was that?!? Something was moving toward me.
Now I’ve been scared, gun pulled on me etc, but whatever it was I was seeing had me frozen, I literally couldn’t move, I was affixed and the little character bent down to climb through a hole in rusty cattle fence over grown with brush. Grey, big eyes, hard to make out in the dull glow of the garage light and whatever faint moonlight existed. All I could do was try to think of how I love the Earth, the science of the universe and my reverence for nature and the natural world, and it stared seeming to read my thoughts.
And like that it turned around and went back through the hole in the fence from which it came, diminishing into the darkness of the night. Finally I was released and my muscles began to work. 20 yards later I began to wonder if that was real, like my memory of it was already fading. I never said I saw an alien or anything like that, however I have told this story about the grey thing with little hands.
Not so long ago I witness a raccoon walking and I sometimes wonder, was it just the low light, brain filling in faint details of an out of world visitor??? I certainly would like to know.