Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a...
by refurb on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:51PM
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It pretty much comes down to labor costs. I spent some time in VN and anything that requires unskilled labor is incredibly inexpensive.
Delivery? Sure, someone will bring it across the city, in the next hour for 35,000 Dong ($1.50USD).
Want to buy shoes? Msg a store, they’ll send pictures, choose a few and they send a store employee over to your house to try them on.
That is changing though. Covid completely messed up the labor market and rather than get locked down, losing your job and still having to pay rent and food, people just went back to the countryside with family and are staying there for now.
As a result labor shortages, even nannies, and wages are going up. I think it’s a good thing, it’s the bottom moving up.
I expect you’ll see a similar transition as the UK eventually. Maids and nannies becomes something exclusive to the rich. Unless of course they continue to import them from lower income countries - a la Singapore.
Delivery? Sure, someone will bring it across the city, in the next hour for 35,000 Dong ($1.50USD).
Want to buy shoes? Msg a store, they’ll send pictures, choose a few and they send a store employee over to your house to try them on.
That is changing though. Covid completely messed up the labor market and rather than get locked down, losing your job and still having to pay rent and food, people just went back to the countryside with family and are staying there for now.
As a result labor shortages, even nannies, and wages are going up. I think it’s a good thing, it’s the bottom moving up.
I expect you’ll see a similar transition as the UK eventually. Maids and nannies becomes something exclusive to the rich. Unless of course they continue to import them from lower income countries - a la Singapore.