India's maid culture and social implications

Its a very common practice in India specially southern city Hyderabad to have maids helping housewives and elderly people with daily chores. As per the Muqaddimah well known book on economics in IvyLeague circle the author argues that maids/servent profession is not natural to human beings and its hard to find someone with basic qualities being honest and hardworking.

However the major implication of living with maids and servent's is people tend to acquire investigative attitude because of always being in an environment of being mistrust and verification. This leads to several complications and fallouts in one's personal life coz people behave with family and friends in the same attitude.

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