> It'd require some impressive mental gymnastics to consider hand-washing cheaper than a washing machine. The societal changes (improvements) that washing machi

> It'd require some impressive mental gymnastics to consider hand-washing cheaper than a washing machine. The societal changes (improvements) that washing machines brought are immense, and fairly well documented. I can't help but think some people just have no experience living without. When I had my dishwasher installed a few years ago, after a decade of living without one, the plumber made a conversational comment about how they were a lot of trouble, he thought that when his broke, he might not replace it. My wife responded "How about you ask your wife about that." I'm sure this guy, nice as he was, simply didn't wash dishes. He really had no idea what doing it by hand meant, nor would he have if his dishwasher broke.