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Servants. This is quite literally the problem servants were the historical solution to. “Hewers of wood and drawers of water”?
And wives, I guess, with bachelors turning to commercial – taverns, street carts – and fraternal – Elks lodges, country clubs – collective providers.
The thing about gold rush-era San Francisco being full of Chinese laundries and eateries is they were serving an overwhelmingly male white migrant population without wives
