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22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 July 2015 02:48:21PM *  0 points [-]

I'd say, it is a good for people to live in an orderly and clean environment, but it is not necessarily good for them to do it themselves - this is why everybody wealthy outsources most of it to hired help.

But it could be good for some people e.g. children, the depressed etc. for achieving easy success and learning a bit of discipline. But as long as people can do more productive things almost nobody demands that they should do it themselves - have ever seen a surgeon, regardless of gender, being criticized for not ironing shirts but leaving that to a hired help?

(Also fsck everything about ironing - there is a startup in France trying to automate it with some kind of an inflatable human shaped balloon releasing steam, hope they succeed although I would not want a human upper body sized bulky item in our current flat. But I really like my shirts crisp and buying no-iron shirts is a poor substitute.)