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Exactly, I mentioned this in another thread - they're not 'servants' in the modern sense exactly, or the way we perceive them. These people are in fact poor and have no money and the wealthier employ them, so basically without them a lot of people wouldn't have anywhere else to find an income or get any money! And as you say they're looked after etc. plus it's difficult with the full-time working lifestyle in some cases over there for the house to be looked after as well.