问HN：为什么美国人不雇佣人类助手来处理日常事务？
在美国，似乎对“家庭劳动力”的需求并不大。个人助理或保姆的概念被视为仅限于超富裕阶层的特权，但我不太明白原因。
特别是，我对这反映出人工智能助手的潜在接受度感到好奇。
例如：在工作之外，我有很多事情需要处理，这些事情占用了我的空闲时间（如购物、简单的餐前准备、轻度清洁、跑腿等）。我希望能够将这些事情外包给一个值得信赖的助手，并支付合理的工资。
粗略计算一下，这样的安排在经济上对很多人来说似乎是可行的：
- 如果问一位年薪15万美元的中年软件工程师，他们是否愿意花1万美元来换取每周额外10小时的空闲时间，我想很多人会回答“愿意”。
- 按照这个比例，一个助手可以同时服务4位客户，工作一个“正常”的40小时工作周，年薪大约在4万美元左右。
那么，为什么我们不见到这样的安排呢？是否在美国的阶级心理中，雇佣别人做这些事情会让人觉得不“妥当”？还是人们只是对信任他人代为处理事务感到不愿意？
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in the US, there doesn't seem to be much of a demand for "domestic labor". the idea of personal assistants or housekeepers is seen as something exclusively for the ultra-wealthy, but i'm not sure why.<p>in particular, i'm curious about what this says about the potential for the adoption of AI-based assistants.<p>for example: there's all sorts of stuff that I have to do outside of work that eat into my free time (
grocery shopping, simple meal prep, light housecleaning, running random errands). I'd love to be able to outsource all that to a trusted assistant that I pay a fair wage to.<p>back of the envelope math makes something like this seem like it should be financially plausibly for a lot of folks:<p>- ask a mid-career software engineer making 150k if they'd trade 10k/year to get an additional 10hrs/week of free time back, and I think a LOT would say yes.<p>- at that rate an assistant would get 4 clients to work a 'normal' 40hour week and make a ~median salary of 40k/yr.<p>So why don't we see arrangements like this? is there something about American class psychology where it feels <i>wrong</i> to employee somebody to do this? or are people just unwilling to trust somebody to do things on their behalf?