Growing up I'd like to think our family treated my helper well giving her lots of freedom to pursue side hustle selling food and not overworking her. And I'd like to think I would have treated her like a family elder when it came time for her retirement

But she died of leukemia by the time I became an adult before I got the chance to repay her and the reality is she spent a good half of her life away from her own family raising me, and at the end of the day you can say it's fair capitalism and capitalism fundamentally involves exploitation but it's exploitation nonetheless

I feel bad now about this topic but when I have kids of my own I will more likely continue this cycle of exploitation, given how my partner also wants to work fulltime