Pretty sure slavery is corrosive to the slaveholder too. Source: slack ass economies love slaves

Not disagreeing with you but..

I was once thinking like the OP too. However, life taught me that you can find someone to do any sh*t job (provided you pick from a large enough pool). Likely because their circumstances are improved by it, at least a little.

Hence I'd rather try to improve things a little bit for one person, unlike my purist (and naive) younger self.

I must admit though, personally I still find it hard still to make someone else do something I myself loathe doing.

> I must admit though, personally I still find it hard still to make someone else do something I myself loathe doing.

Not sure how you avoid it. I assume you don't pick all of your own apples or slaughter your own cows or mine your own iron or cobalt. Delegation is the cornerstone of civilization.

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.