The cleaning lady paradox
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Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
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Here in the U.S., a college professor or manager at a company may or may not have the latest phones, but plumbers? Drywall guys? Subs of any kind? Absolutely the latest and greatest. The very week they come out. It's a culture thing.
And yeah, ditto what Mik said. There could be many other reasons.
Please love yourself.
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Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
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Here in the U.S., a college professor or manager at a company may or may not have the latest phones, but plumbers? Drywall guys? Subs of any kind? Absolutely the latest and greatest. The very week they come out. It's a culture thing.
And yeah, ditto what Mik said. There could be many other reasons.
@aqua-letifer said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Here in the U.S., a college professor or manager at a company may or may not have the latest phones, but plumbers? Drywall guys? Subs of any kind? Absolutely the latest and greatest. The very week they come out. It's a culture thing.
Probably influenced by tax incentives too. Self-employed craftspeople and subcontractors can write the new phones off as a business expense. Salaried college professors and corporate managers cannot.
Don’t know about Germany’s tax code, maybe the cleaning lady can deduct her uniform, communications tools, and transportation from her taxes?
In any case, if I were the cleaning lady’s client, I would not ask her about her wealth. She is not running for public office, I have no reason to suspect illegality, so her wealth is not my business.
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@aqua-letifer said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Here in the U.S., a college professor or manager at a company may or may not have the latest phones, but plumbers? Drywall guys? Subs of any kind? Absolutely the latest and greatest. The very week they come out. It's a culture thing.
Probably influenced by tax incentives too. Self-employed craftspeople and subcontractors can write the new phones off as a business expense. Salaried college professors and corporate managers cannot.
Don’t know about Germany’s tax code, maybe the cleaning lady can deduct her uniform, communications tools, and transportation from her taxes?
In any case, if I were the cleaning lady’s client, I would not ask her about her wealth. She is not running for public office, I have no reason to suspect illegality, so her wealth is not my business.
@axtremus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
@aqua-letifer said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Here in the U.S., a college professor or manager at a company may or may not have the latest phones, but plumbers? Drywall guys? Subs of any kind? Absolutely the latest and greatest. The very week they come out. It's a culture thing.
Probably influenced by tax incentives too. Self-employed craftspeople and subcontractors can write the new phones off as a business expense. Salaried college professors and corporate managers cannot.
Swing and a miss.
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Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
@klaus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
My initial thought on opening the thread was that this is easily your most challenging math conundrum to date.
I was only joking
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@klaus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
My initial thought on opening the thread was that this is easily your most challenging math conundrum to date.
@doctor-phibes said in The cleaning lady paradox:
@klaus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
My initial thought on opening the thread was that this is easily your most challenging math conundrum to date.
+1 LOL
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@klaus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
My initial thought on opening the thread was that this is easily your most challenging math conundrum to date.
@doctor-phibes said in The cleaning lady paradox:
@klaus said in The cleaning lady paradox:
Recently I hired a new cleaning lady for our home.
She’s doing a good job, no complaints at all. She gets a pretty normal salary for that kind of job. But there’s one thing that’s rather odd:
She always drives to work in a $80,000 car, a BMW X5. She also has the latest iPhone and wears, from what I can see, clothes that weren’t cheap.
I’m not sure whether I should ask her about this.
Thoughts?
My initial thought on opening the thread was that this is easily your most challenging math conundrum to date.
+2
