如果像Ranta博士一样，您从事薪水良好的白领工作是不考虑的。雇用容易获得和迫切工作的家庭员工是一项社会责任。 MMA Ramotswe认为，工资很低 - 令人难以置信的是 - 但至少该系统创造了工作。如果每个有工作的人都有女仆，那就是那个食物进入女仆及其子女的嘴。如果每个人都做自己的家务并倾向于自己的花园，那么女仆和园丁的人是什么？
(It was inconsiderate not to have a gardener if, like Dr Ranta, you were in a well-paid white-collar job. It was a social duty to employ domestic staff, who were readily available and desperate for work. Wages were low – unconscionably so, thought Mma Ramotswe – but at least the system created jobs. If everybody with a job had a maid, then that was food going into the mouths of the maids and their children. If everybody did their own housework and tended their own gardens, then what were the people who were maids and gardeners to do?)
在“长颈鹿的眼泪”中，MMA Ramotswe的角色反映了像Ranta博士这样高薪职位的人的社会责任。她认为，拥有园丁或女仆不仅是个人选择，而且是社会义务，尤其是考虑到寻求这种就业的个人的广泛利用。 MMA Ramotswe承认提供给这些工人的低工资，但认为这种做法对于为他们提供生计和支持家人至关重要。
她的观点强调，雇用国内员工为经济做出了贡献，并为个人提供工作，否则就没有工作。她认为，如果每个人都进行自己的家务劳动，它将消除这些角色，从而为那些依赖此类职位的人带来更多困难。该评论给出了对社会不平等的细微看法，这表明与家庭劳动者一起参与社区内部更加不稳定的情况的一种手段。