Chat corner, dusty

[annathecrow]

Hi,

here's the weekly chat post. All Star Wars related talk is welcome, come and share!

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I've spent the last 2 hours cleaning and I'm so done. Do you think people in GFFA have to do their own vacuuming? You'd think they'd have droids for that... then again. I don't know which droid, from the movies at least, I'd trust with dusting my bookshelves. And at least I don't live on Tatooine - getting rid of all that dust must be hell.

Hey, lets play a game:

1. Pick a SW character.
2. Do you think they ever vacuum/sweep/dust?

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I think the closest we came to seeing a droid doing housework was in Skeleton Crew. In fact, I think I even commented at the time that my favorite part of the show was seeing what ordinary life might be like on a random planet in the verse. It seems to me that since slavery existed in many places that for sure they would be used for household tasks, but I would have thought droids would be cheaper investments in the long run, since there are so many kinds and they can do such a variety of work. That said, it may also depend on the environment, since biologicals have proved so adaptive, and places like Tatooine must be just one of many which are hard on mechanical objects.

The larger question to me is how so many jobs exist that are not done by droids? If we look at this in a Doylist way, we can see why there are many more people in crowd scenes and public life on planets than droids (cheaper to show on screen until very recently). But if we look at our own societies now, assuming we had that level of technology, having human workers would be considered a luxury and only used for particular kinds of services. Even if you didn't own any droids yourself, you would probably contract with services that rented them out for jobs, either on a regular basis (weekly cleanings) or for one-time work.