[harigov]

What kind of a social/economic system makes us invest in this when there are billions of malnourished people willing to do something like this for close to free? Why is it that we focus so much on engineering when a lot of problems can potentially be solved using better social and political policies.

[true_religion]

Minimum wage laws mean you'd have to pay them more than a one time cost of $18,000 which is the robot's price tag.

[watwut]

Majority of people are not engineers. Engineers focus on engineering by definition. Altrough this is primary entrepreneurs forum, many here are still engineers who kow a lot about that and did not studied sociology.

Nothing stops you from learning about other issues and becoming activist. Plenty of forums about that.

[ph0rque]

Well, here's one factor:

> The challenge is particularly acute in France, where hospitals have been facing a national crisis, with health care professionals striking and protesting budget cuts and staff shortages.