Dewey McBrewster

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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.

I was thinking more like 20 percent markup as a profit margin. Other fees not included yet

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.

Maybe, Pixelfed.

If you consider this from an evolutionary standpoint…

The human race is built upon many layers. Some of those layers are animal while others are highly social. Think clans and tribes for thousands of years. If you didn’t fit in that was it for you, it was the collective that made survival possible. Because of this we constantly judge and compare ourselves. It’s ingrained in us through a long succession of embodiments that cared where we stood in the pecking order of the tribe and how we looked to attract a mate. That’s what brought you to your existence. Old habits die hard, and you are seeing them manifest in different ways, we are walking around with the hyper-sensitive, status-obsessed, mate-seeking hardware of a hunter-gatherer, but living in a world of social media.

Want to know more? Richard Wrangham, R. Douglas Fields, and René Girard have some interesting theories on the origins, mechanics, and triggers associated with what you see in society.

If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we’ll just have to start dynamic shopping.