Tim Barrus: Domestic Work Is Slavery

Tim Barrus, New York Times. Yes. I have. I’ve done it several times when I needed a job and hotels were hiring. It’s more or less all the same sort of work, and I am here to tell you that, it’s brutal, you have so many number of rooms to do, and you do them. These are rooms that at the upper end cost $300.00 to $500.00 a night. We do not have to work the street but we work the streets to eat. Would you like to fuck me. No. I would like to know how much to fuck you in the ass but only the head. A hundred bucks. I am a communist. The only real solution here to rectify this compelling need for someone to clean your toilets, is to travel to Texas, stay at a five-star hotel in the Pink Princess suite, and after lunch, go buy a slave. Someone who does’t mind being abused because slaves don’t feel pain. While you’re at it, find a slave who can fix your limo, scrub the floors and replace the roof. Chop wood, babysit, iron, how to pick, snip, bake, do 17 loads of laundry a day, and put on a party with white party hats. You haven’t just taken on a job for one person, you have managed to take on jobs for fifteen people, and you failed to look at the floor when I am speaking to you, why are you thirty seconds late. And does this filthy floor appear to you clean enough to eat from. Well, in fifteen minutes, it better be. We will make babies. I want a cow and a cupcake for dinner. I hope you didn’t forget to polish shoes and boots. I want this plantation cleaned up. I want a ride to the bank. What do you mean, all of them. Fill this suitcase with cash, and take a dollar for yourself. The rich simply could not function without slaves. What I want to know is, how do you pay rent in NYC on a dollar a week. Oh, you mean homeless slaves, let’s start ten nonprofits to take responsibility for this outrage. I want all of you to work for free and I call it full employment. Some of the upper class have a conciousness that respect and renumeration are important because when the workers are attemting to survive, you will be cleaing your own toilet and maybe the rest of the toilets in the buliding and we have new toothbrushes. And paint my bathroom and look down because the world is filled with consequences, and all of them are intentional. My point is that if the rich began to understand, and I do not think they can do this, it’s a moral issue, and the aristocracy cannot exist if it cannot wipe its own ass. 































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