The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
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Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#2I stopped when this modal popped up:
UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
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#3I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
I've seen that wording a few times now in different places. I wonder who's aggregating all these smaller ad firms/data brokers.
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#4I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
I just toggle the JavaScript off...
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#5I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
I didn't even see that, I guess because I have both popups and cookies blocked (with exceptions for cookies on a few websites I actually log in to) so it's not like they could store data even if they wanted to. I don't need to know about their attempts that are going to fail anyway.
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#6Is that surprising?
I gather this is about retirement villages in the UK; are retirement villages new there?
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#7I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
I just toggle the JavaScript off...
I tried this but I found a lot of vile websites these days load the actual article with JS
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#8Better call Saul!
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#9I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
It provides you the option of rejecting all cookies, which is what I did.
Not that I'm defending this, it's all terrible. But how many of us reading this article about to stump up for a paid subscription for Unherd? I'd wager next to none.
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#10Under capitialism, why would anyone think that this is anything but expected.
These living communities are meant to house you, until you die, for a price. You have saved up money to pay for that service until you die. Why would they leave money on the table? Why would they spend any extra on someone who's "going to die anyway". Someone who is barely ambulatory; who has few outside connections.
It's the horrible result of end stage capitalism, but it's hardly unexpected.