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> low end jobs were made non-existent How would this work? Jobs were banned and no one does them? Are you saying that there are whole categories of work that j

> low end jobs were made non-existent How would this work? Jobs were banned and no one does them? Are you saying that there are whole categories of work that just aren’t done in the EU? What are these jobs?

bluGill 3y ago
I don't have household servants, but if I moved to India that would be normal. I would like to save the several hours a day I spend cleaning my kitchen costs me, cleaning the other rooms, cooking, doing laundry (my family divides the work, but it is still hours spent every day - and we don't even have the neatest house). However the minimum wage here means I can't afford such servants so I do it myself. It is likely that even if there was no minimum wage I couldn't afford the pay servants would demand to do this - India has a very different economic situation with a lot of people who can't do anything else and so household servant is the best they could get. Humans cleaning the roads/sidewalks every day would keep things a lot cleaner than the machine that only comes every few months. However again we can't pay someone an affordable wage to do that work so we compromise - the machine lets one human do the work of around 2000 humans with a broom, even at $1/day (which would be a good wage in India where they do hire humans to do this work) a modern machine is paid for by labor savings after half a year of operation, but it will run for 5 years or more. (the machine also needs fuel and maintenance which I didn't calculate.)
- lostlogin 3y ago
  I thought this was a US/EU comparison?
  - AlchemistCamp 3y ago
    My mother cleaned people's houses in the US for to help defray living costs while going through medical school. It's not anywhere near as common of a job in the US as in SE Asia, but it's not at all unheard of in larger cities.
  - bluGill 3y ago
    It is really hard to find anything you can do in one that you can't do in the others as our economies are so coupled. Where there are differences it is not economics but moral policies (gambling, drugs, prostitution...)

bluGill 3y ago

I don't have household servants, but if I moved to India that would be normal. I would like to save the several hours a day I spend cleaning my kitchen costs me, cleaning the other rooms, cooking, doing laundry (my family divides the work, but it is still hours spent every day - and we don't even have the neatest house). However the minimum wage here means I can't afford such servants so I do it myself. It is likely that even if there was no minimum wage I couldn't afford the pay servants would demand to do this - India has a very different economic situation with a lot of people who can't do anything else and so household servant is the best they could get. Humans cleaning the roads/sidewalks every day would keep things a lot cleaner than the machine that only comes every few months. However again we can't pay someone an affordable wage to do that work so we compromise - the machine lets one human do the work of around 2000 humans with a broom, even at $1/day (which would be a good wage in India where they do hire humans to do this work) a modern machine is paid for by labor savings after half a year of operation, but it will run for 5 years or more. (the machine also needs fuel and maintenance which I didn't calculate.)

lostlogin 3y ago
I thought this was a US/EU comparison?
- AlchemistCamp 3y ago
  My mother cleaned people's houses in the US for to help defray living costs while going through medical school. It's not anywhere near as common of a job in the US as in SE Asia, but it's not at all unheard of in larger cities.
- bluGill 3y ago
  It is really hard to find anything you can do in one that you can't do in the others as our economies are so coupled. Where there are differences it is not economics but moral policies (gambling, drugs, prostitution...)