maid

You can have a full time maid, driver, etc.

That's $7,000 per hour, plus they have to provide the french maid costume, and I get to keep it after.

Agreed: if you have a maid, you cannot really say you are middle class any more

That suggests it's a lot more purposeful than the maid coming to his room and finding him "gone.

He doesn't own bedsheets or a sweeping brush because an immigrant maid cleans his hotel rooms.

The difference between the values is how much your maid has saved you by doing household chores for you.

If you're serious about your career, you can't do your own cleaning: two-career couple and you need a maid.

Suppose a maid saves you 1 hour/week in household chores which you then use for working, earning you $X. But you only pay your maid $Y, a value likely much smaller than $X.

The classic illustrative example is a man marrying his maid:Unmarried: Man earns $200k/year, pays his maid $25k/year.

They find one they like and they stick with it. This is distinctly different than Uber's model because there's not really driver loyalty like there is with a massage or maid service.

I don't have any maids or cleaning equipment, but I want to gauge interest in the neighborhood by signing people up for appointments and take their billing info.

How about Hong Kong or Singapore where you certainly get a western style life with extra benefits: safer, cleaner, live-in maid service, better access to healthcare and a 15-20% all in tax rate.

You can schedule your dinner delivery time.- I've had friends my age hire a maid to clean weekly apparently without costing much, or just Taskrabbit for one-off things.- Fresh Direct for delivery groceries.- No need for a car, so I can be productive on the train or at least read depending on the commute.- Cabs are incredibly cheap here.