angstbotfic: 70slesbian:jellybeanforest-a-go-go: 70slesbian:raging-fan-human: 70slesbian: i do care
angstbotfic: 70slesbian:jellybeanforest-a-go-go: 70slesbian:raging-fan-human: 70slesbian: i do care if someone hires someone to clean though like you can’t just throw that out there as if it isn’t well known that those people that are hired to clean your home exist because they’re poor. wash your own dirty dishes I understand what you’re saying, but you also seem to be ignoring the fact that people who are hiring these poor people to clean their houses are giving those people jobs. If they weren’t hiring them to clean their houses, these people may not have a job at all. i don’t agree with this logic. i don’t think we need to settle for a job or nothing, is the same to be said for women who work under slavery like conditions in clothing factories in poor countries? why can’t we fight for change instead of accepting that some people just have to be maids Before she moved in to take care of her, my aunt hired a maid to come to my disabled grandmother’s house once a week to clean for like 2-3 hours and paid her $80 every time she came over. There’s no way my grandmother, who had a bum hip from a car accident and hobbled around with her walker (back when she could even walk), could clean her own house. Maids provide an invaluable service, especially for the elderly and disabled, and they shouldn’t be eliminated just because you think their jobs are somehow not good enough for anyone to be doing. Many jobs like housecleaners, gardeners, etc., are great for people who may not speak the local language, who may have had a limited education, or who came here as adults with limited opportunities. My grandfather, who could speak four languages fluently but his English sucked, became a janitor at the age of 58 to support his family when they first came to America, and his kids always advocated that you should treat blue-collar and traditionally low-paid workers with respect because those jobs are valuable and even someone who cleans toilets is a person who is trying their best. Basically, we shouldn’t try to eliminate these jobs; they should just be better compensated. yes i agree! i think that disabled people should have help and that it should be easily available for them but to me that wasn’t what the post was talking about!! i read it as a wealthy people simply hiring help to clean just because they can not because they need to. in an altruistic society people who love to clean could become a maid without having to depend on it, if everyone’s basic needs where met and no one would be walking hungry without their job that’s a different story to me! so while yes we do need to bring respect and wages to these jobs i also don’t think it’s unfair to think about if people actually need their houses cleaned by someone else! some do, including the disabled, some don’t! i hire someone to clean my house because i am super busy and it doesn’t get done regularly otherwise. i’m not even upper middle class. i’m definitely comfortable, but i couldn’t possibly put a kid through daycare or college if i had one.but here’s the thing …employing someone to clean for you isn’t inherently good or bad. it’s bad if you treat them badly or underpay them or disrespect them. i value my housecleaner as a professional who’s way better at it than i am. and she makes more than $50 an hour. so really i think you need to examine your assumptions. you’re treating cleaning a house as an automatically horrible thing that nobody should ever ask someone else to do. you’re treating that job as inherently demeaning. YOU are demeaning those workers. -- source link