• Notcontenttobequiet [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The first place I moved into out of college was a room I rented in a house that was owned by a guy who was much older and established. He worked in tech and did fine, but he was renting out two rooms to go towards alimony or child support payments. Once every like 6 months or so, he asked if we could all put in money for someone to come and clean the house just to give it a once over. This was primarily because he was never home and he lived with two 20-somethings.

    My girlfriend at the time absolutely freaked out at me saying that we were exploiting people and that she wasn't making much more money than the people who would be cleaning our house. I was sort of shocked because it wasn't even my decision in the first place, they were going to be properly compensated for their labor, and it was something he did like once or twice a year. She's an RBG girl boss lib now and in retrospect, it was probably just projection.