[Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy]@TWC D-Link bookLooking Backwards from 2000 to 1887 CHAPTER 11 11/14
How have you disposed of the problem of domestic service? Who are willing to be domestic servants in a community where all are social equals? Our ladies found it hard enough to find such even when there was little pretense of social equality." "It is precisely because we are all social equals whose equality nothing can compromise, and because service is honorable, in a society whose fundamental principle is that all in turn shall serve the rest, that we could easily provide a corps of domestic servants such as you never dreamed of, if we needed them," replied Dr.Leete.
"But we do not need them." "Who does your house-work, then ?" I asked. "There is none to do," said Mrs.Leete, to whom I had addressed this question.
"Our washing is all done at public laundries at excessively cheap rates, and our cooking at public kitchens.
The making and repairing of all we wear are done outside in public shops.
Electricity, of course, takes the place of all fires and lighting.
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