[themodelplumber]

The cleaning is part of the church's treasured psychology of self-reliance, not just a money thing. In fact the money could be argued to have emerged from that self-reliance psychology, even if it's also true that a psychology can be emphasized within an organization or individual to a relatively pornographic degree (detached from current/realistic context).

Plus they've been selling off buildings since they are such a maintenance suck.

But still, it's an amusing thought and I see no reason not to try :D

[tomrod]

This seems like a post-hoc justification. The LDS facility services had several lifetime career workers they fired after implementing this policy, and the congregants rarely kept it as clean.

[Iwillgetby]

I thought the same thing. I played basketball on 100s of Saturdays in the 80s/90s and still think about the kind janitors that cleaned multiple buildings on Saturday. Many lost their jobs due to that policy change and it seemed like nobody realized the people lost their job because of it.