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Whether one is ideologically in favor of the welfare state or opposed to it, the problem of rising costs has become a reality. The dramatic rise in the cost of social services has emanated from three basic sources: the escalating cost of technological equipment and the teams that use this equipment in the medical and health-services fields; the demographic transition to a low birth-rate and long-lived senior citizens; and the increasing salaries of professionally trained service workers. Let us look at each of these.
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Glassman, R.M. (2000). The Rising Cost of Services in High-Tech Societies and Revenue-Generating Mechanisms. In: Caring Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985427_9
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