IIUC, for all that people explicitly complained about not being able to find good help anymore, "one less gossip", especially in the zero gossips[1] limit, was a strong implicit driver for household automation[2].
Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved
[1] especially now that one can verify consumation via the 'gram instead of either doing so conspicously in public or relying upon the servant grapevine to spread the word.
[2] this is a falsifiable hypothesis: it will be interesting to see how covid lockdown in india affects middle class household employment.
> Convince them clean air is more important for their health than the next Mediterranean carnivore diet and we might start getting the tech we need.
Rich people already have fancy air filters in their cars and homes, they spend several months a year breathing clean air in places like Courchevel and St Barts. In places like London they have special taxes to keep poor people and their nasty polluting cars away from the posh areas.
Unless you’re going to convince them to wear masks, there’s probably not much tech can improve here.
I don't think that's what people mean by a "Mediterranean diet", vacations and resorts aren't really representative of a traditional diet, which is what I think people are referring to.
The most common turkish[1] food around here is the "kebab shop" which is the equivalent of a Californian burrito joint and is definitely meat centric. (Compare "kofta") As for greek, gyros and moussaka are two counterexamples.
[1] I've heard a story that Döner Kebap as served here was actually invented in Berlin, but that hasn't kept people with mediterranean complexions from asking me if I knew of any turkish food around and then being very happy when I gave them directions to the kebaberie.
Sure, now, but like with most of the world I suspect that the food most people ate traditionally was what they could grow because meat was too expensive for most people to afford most of the time and that's what they mean when they say "Med Diet", not what you can get now which is kofta and chips.
Convince them clean air is more important for their health than the next Mediterranean carnivore diet and we might start getting the tech we need.
They quickly get followed by the middle class pretending to be rich, then it becomes mass produced and available to the poor.
I think the privacy aspects of automation would also be what the rich value. A servant who isn't around to clean your dishes is one less gossip.