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chrisseaton 5y ago
Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they? Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live?
- cannabis_sam 5y ago
  >Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live? I don’t think you are..
- ghaff 5y ago
  Depends what you mean by domestic staff. With the at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work, people in the West don't typically have full-time dedicated staff because income disparities are mostly not that great until you get into the 1% or smaller slices of the population. What I'm sure most Googlers--and indeed many middle class people to greater or lesser degrees--use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.
  - cannabis_sam 5y ago
    > use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis. How often are these people brought on holiday?
    - ghaff 5y ago
      I was responding to this comment: "Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they?"
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    > at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work Wow this blows my mind TIL
    - ghaff 5y ago
      A quick Google tells me that there are 17,500 au pairs in the US in a given year. That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but probably doesn't capture all live-in or otherwise more or less full-time child care arrangements. And of course, it's only an arrangement a couple will need for a bounded length of time. It's not very common much less routine but if I heard a presumably well-paid tech person tell me they had an au pair or nanny, it wouldn't cause me to think "They must have family money" or anything like that.

Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they? Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live?

cannabis_sam 5y ago
>Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live? I don’t think you are..
ghaff 5y ago
Depends what you mean by domestic staff. With the at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work, people in the West don't typically have full-time dedicated staff because income disparities are mostly not that great until you get into the 1% or smaller slices of the population. What I'm sure most Googlers--and indeed many middle class people to greater or lesser degrees--use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.
- cannabis_sam 5y ago
  > use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis. How often are these people brought on holiday?
  - ghaff 5y ago
    I was responding to this comment: "Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they?"
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work Wow this blows my mind TIL
  - ghaff 5y ago
    A quick Google tells me that there are 17,500 au pairs in the US in a given year. That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but probably doesn't capture all live-in or otherwise more or less full-time child care arrangements. And of course, it's only an arrangement a couple will need for a bounded length of time. It's not very common much less routine but if I heard a presumably well-paid tech person tell me they had an au pair or nanny, it wouldn't cause me to think "They must have family money" or anything like that.