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I was born in Indonesia. In here most (if not all) of middle class in big cities have live in servants. The servants came from rural areas of the country where
by christiansakai 7y ago
I was born in Indonesia. In here most (if not all) of middle class in big cities have live in servants. The servants came from rural areas of the country where opportunity to work is low. Some of their families in rural areas might have a small land, but still not enough to be used as a farm.
There are some horror stories on masters abusing their servants, but my family treated our live in servants well though we are not by any means rich. Most of the work for the servants are light such as cooking, washing clothes, watering plants, helping moms taking care of the babies, etc, and they can do whatever they want, watch TV in their own room or in our lounge, etc.
Inequality? Sure. That is one thing that I can't fix. But one thing for sure that I know. Most of our servants like working with us, and actually do not want to choose other jobs or work for other families despite higher pay. Average tenure of our servants were about 4 - 5 years. Our longest servant has been with us before before I was born (I am 32).