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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I wasn't trying to insult anyone with this. I just think it's an interesting part of our culture. Like I said, people who do this obviously have some money to burn, and they can spend it as they wish. No one has to justify their life choices to me.

But I agree with the PP who mentioned that functional movement is a huge part of maintaining physical fitness and health into old age, and much of the labor that gets hired out to other people would contribute greatly to that functional movement/fitness. Most white collar professionals spend the majority of their day sitting at a desk, looking at a computer, which is pretty terrible for your fitness. So yes, they have to work out (pretty aggressively) to undo the negatives of that lifestyle. So they are spending some of the money they earn doing this work to undo the negative impacts of the work. Then on top of that, many of the activities they could be doing that would be beneficial to their bodies, get hired out to others. It is a strange arrangement. It sounds like the premise of a science fiction story, except that it's not fiction.

Two other points:

(1) I find the strong aversion to cleaning interesting. I have felt that way at points in my life -- that cleaning is drudgery, that I'd rather do anything than clean. But my thoughts on that have shifted with time and now I find a lot of dignity in things like scrubbing floors or pulling weeds. What changed? I studied mindfulness and incorporated it into my day-to-day life, and it gave me a newfound appreciation for manual labor, which can be very meditative and satisfying. It's been a great boon to my mental health, and I no longer hate doing these sorts of chores around the house. Food for thought.

(2) A LOT of people commenting that they clean and they aren't thin, or their housekeeper isn't thin, or the cleaning ladies they see on the street aren't thin. I'd just like to point out that "thin" and "physically fit" are not the same thing, and that the confusion over that might be one reason why many prefer to hire out their manual labor and then pay someone else to help make them "fit" (read: thin). [b]Perhaps cleaning/gardening doesn't feel like a workout because you have a narrow idea of what fitness is, and are[/b] looking for aesthetic results that no, cannot be accomplished via just functional movement (unless you're building a house or clearing a field of rocks or something, maybe). But that doesn't mean that cleaning/gardening (or childcare, for that matter) don't contribute to your physical fitness.[/quote]

https://www.phoenix.gov/firesite/Documents/fire_specificity_a0402.pdf

EXERCISE BASICS: SPECIFICITY PRINCIPLE
The principle of specificity of training states that the way the body responds to physical activity is very specific to the activity itself.

My house cleaner probably has better forearm strength than I do from doing all that scrubbing, but no, that is not going to make her "fit."[/quote]

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