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It is a very complicated issue - I realize that those people need jobs. But it would be better (in my humble opinion) if they would get a much higher pay. If they did, the middle class would not go on acting as if bathrooms need to sparkle 7 days/week, floors need to be washed daily, furniture needs to be dusted, and underwear needs to be ironed before going into a drawer.
WHen we stayed with our friends a few years ago in their wonderful house in Sao Paulo, they kept insisting that we gave our clothes to be washed by their maid (PHil and I always bring our dirty laundry to wash at home in the US) - when I politely refused, the husband said that if they don't give a lot of stuff for the maid to do, she will sit and do nothing, and since they are paying her salary, they want to see her work all the 8 hours of the day.
Fine with me - but you see the rationale behind it all, right? All of a sudden because I want to have cheap labor available to me 8 (or 24) hours per day, I better come up with a list of things that NEED to be done, even if the rest of the planet lives quite well with a bathroom cleaned once or twice a week by the very people who own the house :-)