I've always been against hiring people to do my chores, but eventually I can only defend this from the perspective that doing my own chores makes me a better person. (Instinctively I don't want to do it, but morally I cannot justify not doing it now.)
I don't believe that hiring servants is bad. Ultimately, it creates an opportunity for them as well.
If you have a maid and pay them well, give them better than average working conditions, and don't punish them when you have emotional problems, you give them an opportunity to grow an alternate career on the side.
If you "refuse to participate", that does not fundamentally create more equality in itself.