there’s also a difference in intimacy between an outside of the house vs inside of the house contractor
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My 8 year old does the laundry. I don't think I'd let him install a water heater.
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Fundamental difference between hiring something you could easily do but you don't feel like it and hiring someone with special tools and training.
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This is it right here
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Prob somewhat that. In the past, the wife stayed home so she did domestic work. The man did home repair/lawn care etc. Since he was working it made more sense to hire it out. Now women work at similar rates, domestic things will prob be outsourced at lower relative income levels.
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most ppl are not capable of doing plumbing, or fixing their car or furnace, but anyone can do their own laundry, cooking, cleaning, and grocery shopping (and I have never put lawn mowing in the former category, ppl in my group would def call that luxury)
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Part of the confusion here is that lawn care falls squarely into that latter category and hiring a "lawn care guy" is actually in the same bourgeois category as the housecleaner, etc. The distinction is more obvious once you realize that.
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I haven't paid for any of that, but I have thought about paying for laundry and house cleaning. Almost did it when I was working overtime every week.
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Based on the ability. Most people have the ability to cook, clean, shop, and do lawn care (misclassified in her tweet). Most people don't have the ability to do skilled work (by definition). Hiring people of lower-income to do work you don't want to do but can is bourgeois.
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