Why helping old people to live in their own homes for as long as possible is simply not a good idea.

Helping old people to live in their own homes for as long as humanly possible is not only intellectually dishonest, and therefore morally questionable, but also more expensive for the society.

Saying that it would actually save money is not only a wrong statement, it’s a flat-out lie.

Why? Because the more infirm old fogies we have still living in their homes (that may or may not be publicly subsidized), the more we must build new homes for everyone else who could otherwise live in these homes instead.

And like we all know building new homes in this day and age is as cheap as making hay.

Even if that alone wasn’t yet a reason enough to put these folks where they honestly should be, I think there’s a even more pressing reason for it.

In modern times we like to pretend like problems hardly even exist. And when they do, we just tend to look at them from one angle only.

We do everything we can to skirt around problems. We start calling things by less obvious names. We raise or lower criteria so that we can come up with more valid looking figures.

Or we just mutually agree to stop talking about this or that particular issue. Usually because of the economy.

The economy is a safety word which allows us to end any and all discussion without actually needing to address the problem at hand.

We can’t, we mustn’t, we shouldn’t. Because, because Bill Cosby. Because of the economy.

” Oh, right, right. I get it now. It’s the economy, dude. ”