Reply #72: Exactly a magnitude higher

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I was on a cruise w/ a couple form India. Typical rising middle class tech workers. Since my field is tech we talked a lot at dinner table.

They seemed genuinely suprised as someone with a decent help I didn't have any domestic labor.

Their $30K income supported 4 servants (cook, lead servant/labor, 2 maids). I don't know how little they were paid but they were only a small portion of the estimated $30K family income. 4 full time workers.

Figure the equivelent in US would be
butler - $35
cook - $30
maidx2 - $20
total: $105

say for domestic help to be 10% of your income you would need to make $1mil+

So yeah a software engineer making $80K in CA is NOT going to be able to exploit the poor they way they csn in India.