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Because I don’t want to feed the system / make it legitimate. It’s a matter of principles.

Presumably you're someone quite well paid and can afford to pay a cleaner at western rates (I pay mine 15 GBP per hour in London).

A cleaner will clean better and faster than you, letting you not only enjoy a clean stress-free home, but also enabling you to make a more productive use of your time.

Then they would be doing the same work for even worse pay and conditions back home.

Then I’d happily pay more then 15% income tax in this country so we can provide better foreign aid to said countries so they can afford a better education. Encouraging slavery does not solve the root cause.

They could also be giving money to an "agency" with less scruples, or encouraging 3 other people to enter the trade. There's no telling.

Opting out of an exploitative system is self-justified.

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