Ask HN：为什么美国人不雇佣人类助手来处理日常事务？
4 分•作者: parpfish•8 个月前
在美国，似乎对“家政服务”的需求并不大。个人助理或管家的概念似乎是富豪专属，但我不太明白为什么会这样。
特别是，我很好奇这说明了什么关于采用基于人工智能的助手的潜力。
例如：除了工作之外，我还有各种各样的事情要做，这些事情会占用我的空闲时间（
买菜、简单的餐食准备、轻度家务、跑腿）。我很乐意把所有这些都外包给一个值得信赖的助理，并支付他们合理的工资。
粗略估算一下，这种模式对很多人来说似乎在经济上是可行的：
* 问问一位年薪 15 万美元的中年软件工程师，如果他们愿意用 1 万美元/年的代价换取每周多出 10 小时的空闲时间，我想很多人都会说愿意。
* 按照这个比例，一个助理可以为 4 个客户工作一个“正常”的 40 小时工作周，并赚取大约 4 万美元/年的中位数工资。
那么，为什么我们没有看到这样的安排呢？是不是因为美国人的阶级心理，雇佣别人做这些事情会让人觉得“不对”？还是人们只是不愿意信任别人替他们做事？
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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?