The upper class had multiple servants
The middle class might have a maid (on TV, we saw this with "Hazel", "The Brady Bunch", "Maude", "Family Affair", etc. These shows were not ridiculous. Plenty of people lived like that.)
The lower class did basic work, including being the "help" for the others.
The Middle Class, by the way, usually had one income (the man). So, with one income, you can be in the middle class, raise a family, and have a maid.
Around about 1960 or so, feminists (who didn't have jobs, and didn't take care of a household -- they had a maid for that sort of thing) stood up and said, "We're bored and we don't like being second class citizens!" And they insisted on joining the workforce.
And there's nothing wrong with that, although I'm not sure they ended up with a great deal, that's not really my business.
And somehow we have transitioned to a society in which the middle class is shrinking rapidly -- and golly you need two incomes to even think about being middle class -- and men increasingly do not work, and a great many people are on the dole.
Something tells me that we went down a horrible path somewhere.
I agree with you, 100%. I am grateful to SOME of the women who went before me - who sacrificed ACTUAL blood and freedom so I could have a vote, join the military, etc. (Molly Pitcher, Susan B. Anthony, etc.)
But those worthless, WORTHLESS feminists sold so many women a bill of goods and they are 100% RESPONSIBLE for a huge chunk of our failing society.
I, for one, appreciate a man that will help me through life. Sure I can do it myself, but it’s SO much easier when you have two in the yoke pulling in the SAME direction. :)
“And somehow we have transitioned to a society in which the middle class is shrinking rapidly — and golly you need two incomes to even think about being middle class — and men increasingly do not work, and a great many people are on the dole.”
It’s pretty simple math. Labor is a commodity like any other, and its price is dictated by supply and demand. So, if you double the supply of available labor in a country overnight, while demand remains steady, what happens to the price of labor?
Women were lured into the workforce with the material things that discretionary income could buy; as incomes rose prices did as well, and now that second income isn’t buying a shore house - it is buying groceries and other essentials.
Families could live on one income, but it would be in a dangerous area; now the second income is to get you further from unassimilated multi-generational welfare populations.
drs and lawyers were RICH and maybe they had maids....