- to me, the whole thing smacks of capitalist bean counting - and we are trying to get away from capitalism here. Looking after myself - or my family - is part of my life, not my work life, and I don't really see any reason somebody should be paying me for this. The claim that a paid maid doing somebody else's dishes is comparable to me doing my own dishes is not really valid, I think, as the 'reductio ad absurdum' quickly kicks in, and we can claim we should be paid for everything - I drive my car, and there are chauffeurs getting paid for driving cars, so I should get paid for driving myself downtown?