Yeah its not particularly relevant to this post, I just remembered this line when I saw the post and now am tricking people into reading Davis. The capitalist involvement in the system does however make it somewhat of a luxury item though, so we are faced with a lot of the same problematic stuff of wealthy people's housework being outsourced to black and poor people. Nonetheless, you are correct that massively building this sort of nationalized Stanley Steamer would alleviate the issues she lays out.