#LET PEOPLE WORK ON WHATEVERY THEY WANT AS LONG AS IT'S LEGAL DAMMIT

[watercolourferns]

Okay, here's my take as one of the ethnicities that get hired to clean more often by the rich, both on this side and the other side of the border: IF YOU'RE GONNA PAY THEM A LIVABLE WAGE AND TREAT THEM LIKE THE HUMAN BEINGS THEY ARE AND NOT YOUR SENTIENT ROOMABAS THEN THERE'S NO PROBLEM IN HIRING PEOPLE TO HELP YOU CLEAN YOUR HOUSE.

In Mexico, the Mazahua people are one of the most hired for "house help" and one of the most abused people for it. They're abused in every form possible and then they're discarded whenever the "patrones" don't like them anymore or if they dare speak up.

THIS is the reason why "hiring help" is a problem in Mexico and so many other countries. THE ABUSE, not because it's wrong if you hire someone to help you clean. I REPEAT, THE ABUSE IS THE PROBLEM NOT THE JOB.

I have family members who genuinely liked to clean, but left the jobs because of the abuse they faced. And it broke their heart because they really truly liked making houses clean and seeing people happy about it.

Like others have mentioned, it's extremely ableist to say "wash your damn dishes", you have no idea why someone hired a cleaning service, even a live-in one. And it's extremely classist to call everyone who cleans for a living "poor" or make it out as if they had no other choice but to go into cleaning houses to survive. There was a Mexican tiktok lady who got so famous from her cleaning videos she opened an agency with her family and got various sponsorships, including Scrub Daddy. She's one of the reasons Scrub Daddy and real cleaning tiktoks got so popular, too. (And by real I mean not the cleaning bomb ones that waste cleaning supplies) So, you truly never know what's going on in the life of the person you hire to help you. ASKING THEM WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA.

We hire people to build our houses, to drive cars or buses for us, to plant and harvest food for us, to keep livestock for us... The difference between it being a problem and it just being how things are, people having jobs, is the way you treat those who work for you and alongside you. If you can't treat them like humans, then YOU are the problem not their job.