&quot;I put &quot;poverty&quot; in scare quotes because in India this would be considered &quot;rich&quot;&quot;<p>Yeah, this guy doesn&#x27;t know what he&#x27;s talking about. Yes, in India, that might be considered &quot;rich&quot;. But he&#x27;s not talking about India. He&#x27;s talking about the US. And in the US, that amount of money would make you desperately poor. Further, if you could make that amount of money either doing hard, laborious work, or not doing anything, any rational person would do nothing, as it doesn&#x27;t have the costs that labor have on the body.<p>If you really wanted to see that the person took the job as a maid, then what should happen is that they would get the safety net money as well. That way, there&#x27;s an incentive to take the maid job. (One could also just raise the wages of the maid job, but nobody wants to do that).