Monetising your mum: The industrification of aged careEven before the COVID-19 pandemic, in many parts of the world there have been considerable, ongoing concerns about care quality provision for older people, particularly for those in residential aged care facilities. People understand that something has been fundamentally corrupted when the care of our older citizens becomes 'simply another commodity to be purchased, rather than an essential service that is their right' (Davidson, 2018: 104). Depressingly, regular 'scandal stories' and public enquiries come and go, but nothing changes. A most egregious example is illustrated in the official report on the recent sudden closure and evacuation of the residents of an aged care facility in Australia. Among the many corporate outrages and derelictions of care uncovered, the report explicitly commends the home's care staff who 'remained on site to support the residents amid the chaos despite being told they would not be paid or covered by insurance', while roundly condemning the home's owners, managers and liquidators for their 'deplorable lack of accountability (...)for the consequences of their actions' (Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of Health, 2019:4).The mistakes that 'must never happen again' reoccur and the 'lessons that must be learned' never are. We may never discover