> It's a good thing that upper middle class people today can't afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It's an indication that lower cl

> It's a good thing that upper middle class people today can't afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It's an indication that lower class people can make a lot more money doing non-domestic work. Not necessarily. Many lower-class people are unemployed. It may also be an indication that lower-class people are getting lower in, well, class. Many, many rich people would be happy to employ in-home servants for some reasonable wage (say, more than minimum) but the days when you could get servants who knew how to dress, speak, et cetera properly around upper-class people are long gone. Culture has bifurcated, the lower class have no idea how to behave around polite society, and more problematically don't think it's worth trying. It's much better to be a butler (or even a footman) than a janitor at McDonald's, but the average McDonald's janitor isn't someone you'd want inside your house.