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Menial work is going down. This isn't a personal servant, it's a business that's able to batch, scale, and prioritize like a scaled business. Right now, doing
by potatolicious 13y ago
Menial work is going down. This isn't a personal servant, it's a business that's able to batch, scale, and prioritize like a scaled business.
Right now, doing laundry in your own homes, it takes exactly 10 people to do 10 loads of laundry. We can reduce this to one or two people by centralizing all of this work to specialized workers, if not less.
If we go by the goal of fewer people spending less time doing menial labor, this is a clear win.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoI actually just don't understand why one person picking up 10 loads of different people's laundry, doing the laundry, and delivering back the folded loads requires less total minutes of work than 10 people doing 10 loads of laundry at home. Yes, it takes less people, but those people spend their lives doing laundry. Yes, servants are specialized workers. I think there may be marginal efficiencies over people taking their clothes to a laundromat in some cases. But I've never heard of anybody with washer and dryer at home using a laundry service. Typically they'll just hire a maid to do their laundry if they really need it.