alt Hacker News> I too needed cash to pay rent, to buy food, to pay Maggie—the human still charging me a flat rate of 150 bucks
I really found it hard to sympathize with the author at this point. If you're in a crunch you don't need to pay a maid to clean.
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"first world problems", as people say. And the tone also felt dismissive of the work done by the cleaner... If it's such a big amount, he could consider entering her line of business.
That's exactly how I feel when gamers complain that a GPU that used to cost $1000 now costs $2000.
This really depends. The author may know the maid well and appreciate that the maid needs the money, or that the trouble of finding a good one if/when the economic situation improves for them is worse than the temporary problems.
If this is your takeaway, it's what you were looking to believe anyway...
That was my first clue that the author was squeezing this for a story. The snide joke about taking their kid on vacation so they could ignore each other felt really cold, too. The section where she tried to dunk on a coworker for trying to do the job well was also consistent with someone just squeezing this whole thing for a writing piece instead of trying to do the job.
Nowhere in the article did she support the “everyone in Hollywood” claim, other than saying she found it in a Facebook group for writers.