Live in luxury by pampering the rich (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Ron Dicker

(LifeWire)
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"I don't know many wealthy people who will scrub floors," says Scudere, the owner of Professional Domestic Services and Institute in Powell, Ohio. "They need people to take care of them."
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The domestic staffers in training say job security isn't much of an issue for them. None of those interviewed feared a recession would weaken their prospects believing that the uber-loaded are impervious to economic downturn.

The world's millionaires (those whose sum of cash and investments totals at least $1 million, not including their residences) grew 8.3 percent to 9.5 million people between 2005 and 2006. The superwealthy, worth $30 million-plus, mushroomed 11.3 percent to almost 95,000 during that same time period, according to the 2007 World Wealth Report issued by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.

China and former Eastern Bloc nations such as Ukraine are minting millionaires in unforeseen numbers, and royal households from the Middle East are demanding highly trained women to serve only females in the palace.

In the United States, jetsetters are aging with the rest of the country and need more help, says Scudere. And, despite a housing slump, the very prosperous are building bigger estates with more amenities such as swimming pools, screening rooms and bowling alleys, she adds. Someone has to handle the maintenance.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/03/19/butler.school/index.html

So I've been worrying about the economy for NOTHING? I feel so foolish!

[avenger64]

1. I saw this, but ...

... it seems like raising the top marginal rate to where Clinton had it would be a less humiliating way of getting the rich to pitch in.

[Breeze54]

2. Glad to hear there's job security servicing their asses!

:sarcasm:

I'll bet they pay minimum wages too. :evilfrown:

But I know it's true! Some of the uber rich wouldn't
wipe up their own vomit, if their life depended on it.

[tjwash]

3. Oh...my daughter played at af golf tourney in China a couple of years ago.

And right before it started, the course was flooded with typical "ugly-rich american" types, that had actually hired not just caddies, but some locals there who's job was to tee the ball up for them, to bend over and pick it up for them as well.

[Breeze54]

4. I tried my hand at house cleaning once upon a time and

the couple; elderly and well off, had me transferring rolls and rolls of toilet paper from cartons and cartons in their garage into dresser draws and closets and any other place I could find. It was mind boggling that anyone would need that much TP, let alone storing all of it inside the house!! :P It was just so bizarre, like they would never ever be able to get to a store ever again! And they wanted me to clean stuff that wasn't dirty or used and they were uber slobs to boot and they paid me a pittance. I found a 'real' job after that little two week stint. ;) But they did offer me their leftovers for lunch one day!

[TheWatcher]

5. Keep shoving it in our Faces, Jetsetters.

You never know, someday, we might just shove back.

Think France.