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> I too needed cash to pay rent, to buy food, to pay Maggie—the human still charging me a flat rate of 150 bucks

I really found it hard to sympathize with the author at this point. If you're in a crunch you don't need to pay a maid to clean.

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That was my first clue that the author was squeezing this for a story. The snide joke about taking their kid on vacation so they could ignore each other felt really cold, too. The section where she tried to dunk on a coworker for trying to do the job well was also consistent with someone just squeezing this whole thing for a writing piece instead of trying to do the job.

Nowhere in the article did she support the “everyone in Hollywood” claim, other than saying she found it in a Facebook group for writers.

The author also suffers from ethos fry, where his failed career as a writer and entry level job experience nullifies his ability to come to a useful conclusion on AI and current affairs. How can someone who has shown little ability to time or predict the future or control his destiny be trusted when it comes to analyzing the emergence of new technologies? But I think that logic might be an Ad Hominem attack

"first world problems", as people say. And the tone also felt dismissive of the work done by the cleaner... If it's such a big amount, he could consider entering her line of business.

That's exactly how I feel when gamers complain that a GPU that used to cost $1000 now costs $2000.

I mean doubling in price is pretty significant though? I used to happily (well, grudgingly) spend $500 on a GPU. $1k is crazy though.

Someone whose hobby is Gaming, saves up diligently to pay $1k for a GPU, now has the rug pulled from under them and its $2k. Amortizing a $1k GPU over 4 years isn't too bad, $250 a year, $20 and change a month vs $500 a year / $40 a month is pretty big.

NetHack 5.0.0 was just released and it runs pretty well even on older GPUs.

We have video games at home!

This really depends. The author may know the maid well and appreciate that the maid needs the money, or that the trouble of finding a good one if/when the economic situation improves for them is worse than the temporary problems.

If this is your takeaway, it's what you were looking to believe anyway...

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