[causality0]

You have an interesting definition of "middle class" if you think middle class people can take on an extra 25 thousand dollar yearly expense.

Not to mention those are wildly different use cases. Picking items in a warehouse is a less complex task than handwashing a single sink full of assorted dishes, let alone being a general servant.

[dragonwriter]

> You have an interesting definition of "middle class" if you think middle class people can take on an extra 25 thousand dollar yearly expense.

Petit bourgeois people very often can.

If by “middle class” you mean “around median income”, which is mostly people firmly in the working class (a use of “middle class” invented to beutralize working class solidarity rather than reflecting any real class distinction), then, well, no, they probably can't.

[prepend]

First, lots of middle class people send their kids to college. Middle class in the US goes up to $200-300k/year.

But I was thinking neighborhoods would chip in together so it’s just a few grand a year. I didn’t mean that every house would have their own robot, Bicentennial Man-style.