&gt; It&#x27;s a good thing that upper middle class people today can&#x27;t afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It&#x27;s an indication that lower class people can make a lot more money doing non-domestic work.<p>Not necessarily. Many lower-class people are unemployed.<p>It may also be an indication that lower-class people are getting lower in, well, class. Many, many rich people would be happy to employ in-home servants for some reasonable wage (say, more than minimum) but the days when you could get servants who knew how to dress, speak, et cetera properly around upper-class people are long gone. Culture has bifurcated, the lower class have no idea how to behave around polite society, and more problematically don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth trying.<p>It&#x27;s much better to be a butler (or even a footman) than a janitor at McDonald&#x27;s, but the average McDonald&#x27;s janitor isn&#x27;t someone you&#x27;d want inside your house.