Cheap Wages Make Better Household Workers

As with everything in life there is positives and negatives. As the economy slows down and companies continue to move their manufacturing plants overseas we find that low skilled labor is left without enough adequate work. This low skilled labor swells the unemployment ranks and pushes wages down even further creating a situation where domestic helpers are cheaper then ever before.

Highly skilled workers and professional laborers find that their jobs can’t be outsourced easily. Since they are competing on a different level and talent is hard to find, according to the Economist, then their wages will continue to increase. What we find is that the dollar goes much further because there are less dollars earned by the great masses but more dollars earned by the educated. A two-tier class system exists.

As professionals make more money and the unskilled make less, professionals may find themselves in a place where they can exploit the unskilled labors for domestic work. This means that the unskilled laborer may be willing to clean a house, watch kids, mow the lawn, etc…for as little as a couple of hundred dollars a week and a free place to stay.

This is good news in the short run for professionals who would like to concentrate even more on their career and take all the mundane tasks away. This means that their houses will be clean, their kids chauffeured to school, groceries bought and yard work done. In the long run these low wages may draw back a number of manufacturing plants due to labor costs again being affordable.

Many of us would feel very badly about the laborer and his or her plight. However, we can’t remember that people have made their own choices when the economy strong. The workers could have taken student loans, could have gone to college or went into a trade. Instead many have chosen to work because they were enjoying other aspects of their lives.

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