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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by tptacek on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:28PM (#10986279)
Are you horrified by all the parents who put their kids in day care while they work?
Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by aidenn0 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:46AM (#10986539)
Not who you're asking, but this is clearly a problem for infants and young toddlers (the data is fairly strong for under 18 months, and gets less clear the older you get from there), though it still gives the children the human interaction they need.

Results are best when there is a single primary care-giver and a small number of other regular care-givers, and day-care tends to not allow for this.

Things get much worse, however, when the staff of the day-care is either too few or too neglectful, as human contact and interaction is so important for early development.

It is possible that we could create a sufficient facsimile of a human to allow for automated care of a child that would fulfill these needs, but there is a creep factor in that, and there remains the question of how one would ethically test the efficacy of such a system.

Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by rimantas on Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:01AM (#10986594)
And who takes care of the kids in the day care, robots?
Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by ben0x539 on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:42AM (#10994360)
I'm horrified by a economic systems that works out to requiring that, yeah. Aren't you?