You're making a mistake by confusing effort and difficulty with value. There are uncountably many human-requiring tasks that don't improve the world at all. Fo

You're making a mistake by confusing effort and difficulty with value. There are uncountably many human-requiring tasks that don't improve the world at all. For instance, "count all 'pretty' things and divide the number by two". While silly this work still takes effort and you'd have a hard time finding someone to put out that effort without you paying them. You don't benefit in this scenario though because the work is silly. There is no value in having it done. This is further complicated by subjective value. Even if we had identical homes in identical states we wouldn't identically value the same incremental improvement from having them cleaned. This is especially true across income levels. If you set a minimum wage you ensure everyone working in that industry makes that wage in the same way that if you execute everyone over six-feet tall you ensure that nobody bumps their head. While you personally may even end up paying a bit more for a cleaner, poorer people who can't afford that would simply stop hiring cleaners. Their ex-cleaners make nothing but have conveniently been removed from the statistics so everything seems to be better. And now everyone's house is dirty.