What are your views on having paid servants?
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I would LOVE to have paid servants to do my cooking and cleaning! I would call them "employees" though, not servants.
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I agree, not servants. Employees. I have worked for many people, I have cooked,cleaned, baby sat, And now, if I were to have someone as my employee, it just makes the circle complete. The Great Circle Of Life!!!!!!!
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it depends on how you treat them if you treat them ok then i would have them it would be great no more cleaning my room.
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They fulfill a need. Servitude is nothing to be ashamed of, indeed, servants can become part of the family. So long as it's not slavery, then it's a job, just like a plumber or accountant.
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I am in the market for someone to help me keep my computer room neat and clean. I feel overwhelmed by all the junk that has accumulated around me even as I type this answer. As far as hiring the help is concerned, I don't know where to begin. I'm concerned about hiring an honest person who won't be swiping my stuff or snooping into my business.
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Servants are just like any employee. They are people who work for you. It's not slavery. They just do things that are of a more personal nature.
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It's up to yourself to decide if you will employ them or not.
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It's just a job. Nothing wrong with it. I personally wouldn't hire any even if I was in the position to because I'm paranoid, and apart from that, it would make me far too lazy.
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I don't like the word servant. We have a maid that comes by once a week and she is more family than anything. She invited us over for Christmas dinner a couple of years ago and it was great. We've met her family. Her Mom came over to our house once. We exchange gifts. They are freinds, but we still pay her to come over once a week to clean. And there is always a hug and update about how things are going.
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What's wrong with having servants? There just doing a job.
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It's a valid job, but i think less of people who employ them without a need to... Generally i don't think it is right purely based on my general disdain for hierarchy systems...
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It also asks the question: -When is a domestic worker threatend "too bad"?
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We're all paid servants!
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If you have the money to employ people to do anything, why not give them employment.
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I have a cleaning lady that comes every two weeks, but I don't consider her a "servant". She does a job for me and I pay her, just like my employer pays me to do a job.
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In India we have paid servants to do most of our housework,especially in the middle and rich households.The population of India is huge and employment is required which can bring home our daily needs so it works both ways for the poor and the rich as well.I think we should all be happy that everyone is gainfully employed as long as they are not ill treated.
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All of us have paid servants, but most aren't working in your home!
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It has always amazed me how rich people seem to have no boundaries with people in the form of strangers being so seemlessly intergrated into their close personal spaces and personal lives rather than to just do things themselves. I wouldn't ever be able to trust anyone enough to trust them with my kids my finances or my home. Its just too weird for me. The only way I could see it as being acceptable, is if you are simply THAT busy and life must go on somehow without you. But still... If I were a billionaire I would still do most things myself.
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In society as we know it "paid" is the operative word here. I would guess that most are paid quite well, although Firemen, Police officers, and Correctional officers would tell you that they are very under paid. I would guess that it really depends on what society deems as worth paying for. Most would agree that paid servants, personal or public are paid well enough but when you need one and can't find one then you understand more of their point of view.
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Many domestic workers, especially young girls, seem to be threatened very strict. A female friend of mine worked as a live-in maid/nanny girl for some years when she was a young, low-educated girl with not much money in her late teens/early 20's, and she really hated it. Not only she had a lot of dirty work to do. She also had to wear a uniform or whatever you can call it if there's only one person working there, including a white blouse, a black skirt, a white apron and black shoes. She also had to wear a nametag, and tie her hair in a ponytail. And every time her employer arrived, she had to curtsy. For every little misstake she made (like forgetting to put the blouse inside the skirt), the employer begun to shout at her, until she almost begun to cry.
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