Seeing wealthy ppl joke about not being able to do laundry or get themselves a glass of water, is so gross to me.
For the love of Stalin these ppl need to be put in gulags / re-education centers asap.
Seeing wealthy ppl joke about not being able to do laundry or get themselves a glass of water, is so gross to me.
For the love of Stalin these ppl need to be put in gulags / re-education centers asap.
honestly the fact that servants/maids exist in the first place to me show the inherent limitations to the patriarchal family structure. in the same way that traditional and productive labor was socialized, reproductive labor should also be socialized and/or automated, and this would require a different familial structure.
because the division of reproductive labor is the primary contradiction of patriarchy, socializing reproductive labor is the main way that you can actually liberate non-men and thus smash the patriarchy. in this sense, maids/servants as they exist now very clearly constitute an unequal division of reproductive labor, offloading it onto less fortunate women and supporting the decaying patriarchal family unit.
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interesting story. i have thought about how, even within market socialism, having a low cost of labor makes for much cheaper prepared food. continually decreasing the necessary amount of weekly hours as you decrease market dominance and overproduction, means people have more time to eat out. as restaurants become less market-dependent, it may become healthy enough to eat at them every day regardless of the restaurant. and, as this all occurs food production may look more and more localized like what you described and less about the production of nonperishable snacks. even now it can serve as a happy medium so that everyone doesn’t have to have a full oven or what have you.