Taking care of your parents (and children, and children's children) is your life.
The relatively brief period where america corporatized and privatized extended families in the form of retirement communities, nursing homes, day-care and so on is coming to an end. Setting aside if that system was a net good, it turns out that it's simply too expensive: it only worked when the US was the worlds factory (first for goods, then for dollars)
The relatively brief period where america corporatized and privatized extended families in the form of retirement communities, nursing homes, day-care and so on is coming to an end. Setting aside if that system was a net good, it turns out that it's simply too expensive: it only worked when the US was the worlds factory (first for goods, then for dollars)