OnServants

To be written

Over on OffShoring/TheNextBigThing I wrote :

Clearly, there are cases where the personal mixes with the commercial relatively happily. When you do favours and occasionally sell services to your friends. Where people in the same community give each other credit. But that isn't the only scenario. More normal is the situation where those with the wealth and power are schizophrenic. Where they require servants to provide intimate personal connections one second, and want to be free of connection or commitment to them, the next. A wealthy class schooled on the convenience of plug-and-play devices and an alienated industrial work-force, will make for the worst kind of masters.

See also :

• EmotionalLabour

• RolePlayingCafes

• HomeWorkBoundary