The psychology of service
It's more complicated than just getting the chores done
AT FIRST sight, the master-servant relationship seems based on economic differences: a mutually beneficial transaction between one party with more money than time (or willingness) to perform household tasks and another in the opposite situation. And indeed many of the world's 50m-100m domestic workers are migrants propelled across borders by gulfs in wealth as great as those between aristocratic Victorians and their maids, or colonial Portuguese in Brazil and their slaves.
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