"Now many of the country’s middle class claim they can no longer afford to pay their domestic maids."
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-53031803/ethiopian-maids-dumped-outside-beirut-embassy
Maids, drivers, butlers?? This is "middle income"? People having other people doing normal life chores is the province of the rich and well to do in life.
Also, the distance between 'servant' and 'slave' is very narrow in places.