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By your definition of the middle class, a healthy U.S. economy would need approximately 4,000,000 domestic maids to satisfy the biweekly maid service requiremen
by applecore 10y ago
By your definition of the middle class, a healthy U.S. economy would need approximately 4,000,000 domestic maids to satisfy the biweekly maid service requirement.
- droithomme 10y agoIt is a lot of good jobs that pay fairly, do not require skilled labor, post-secondary education, or high IQ, and is not difficult, strenuous or dangerous work. I have certainly done this same work myself. It is an excellent position for people without many skills and/or the desire to pursue education. And it is not an appropriate use of time for those of us who do have more skills. Therefore it is highly reasonable and efficient to outsource these tasks to those unable to make things or to design things, and/or not motivated for whatever reason to seriously pursue and master such tasks.
- kcanini 10y agoOr it would require a family to be able to support itself on one full-time income instead of two, so the other spouse can maintain the house.
- jaggederest 10y agoI'm not sure there's much of an overlap but the 8,000,000 people in the transportation industry who will shortly be underemployed might be in the market for that.