Want to be happy - hire a maid.
Very very usefull, totally agree. It implies maid will never be happy though.
A better said title might be : want to be happy - you should be wealthy enough to afford to pay somebody to do the stuff you don't like.
A better said title might be : want to be happy - you should be wealthy enough to afford to pay somebody to do the stuff you don't like.
It implies nothing on the sort. Maids are not sad slaves, but regular employees. They can have happy lives too (even if with a less wealthy lifestyle than people who use their services).
Which while in theory might sounds sensible in reality is complete nonsense ;)
A garbageman are constantly taking care of other peoples garbage. Does that mean they too can't be happy?
What's the implication, living in the wild by yourself? Because you don't want to be in a position to pay poor people?
Just because the maid comes to your house, and the people would build computers live in china does not change the basic economics. It only changes how it engages your sensible values.
You do understand most of the lowest level jobs are taken by people as matter of survival not because it's their life dream.
There is no implication. Just continuing the line of thought from the article. If you want to be happier you have to value your time more over money. What is missing in the article though is you fist need to be wealthy enough to be able to make such a choice. Many people can't make this choice they are forced to sell their time for survival money.
So clearly you don't boycott all products that include labor from poor people, as you are typing this on some sort of computer I presume.
So again. Explain to me what the MORAL difference is between using somebodies labors by buying products, or coming to your house.
So.. everything uses others peoples labour. True. It's about how this labour is valued. The reason maid makes you happier is something like that: You make let's say 50$/hour, the maid charges let's say 25$/hour. So you work 1h, and you can pay the maid to clean your house for 2h. This makes sense, as you have one hour time left to do something else which makes you happy. Would you do it if the maid charges 50$/hour? Probably not, because this way you have to work 2h to pay for 2h of maids cleaning (and we don't even count taxes here).