I came from a farm family. My grandfather pretty much allowed a black family to live rent free in tenant homes. This was a area and time when better than half homes had no indoor toilet. Grandpa probably didn't pay them well but he kept them fed and warm through the winter. He also paid for medical care such as it was then. My father would go bail them out of jail if they didn't kill somebody.
The lady of the house would help grandmother in the house when they weren't in the field.
Then came the great society and soon all moved to town and learned how to scam the system. We automated as much as possible and hired local teenagers when they were out of school and cleaned house on our own.
I am thinking about hiring a cleaning service to help my wife, she works a fairly stressful job and could use some real help besides my halfassed efforts.
