Luxury for one could provide stability to another, financially!
"What's the reasonable wage we should set for domestic workers?", asked a resident in our WhatsApp Group of the community I live in. As the permanent in-house secretary, I had a moral obligation to respond, which I did. I replied with a suggestion, "If there is consensus we could set a standard and provide that as a guidance to community members." Little did I know my post will trigger a democratic debate in words and result in creating history for most active participation in a day since that WhatsApp group was created! I remained a silent spectator for well over 30 mins, learning from perspectives shared both in favor and against standardization. Someone asked, "Isn’t “reasonable” relative? What seems reasonable to one, might seem expensive to another." Another person pitched in with this clarification, "The point we are talking is about certain percentage of uniformity. Like, if we are a family of 2 adults and a kid, a reasonable...