would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a cleaner in Mexico

1 stranger working as cleaner in Mexico have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 5.0 / 10. 69% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 17% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
5.0/ 10
stress
6.4h/ night
sleep
11h/ week
free time
$1,280/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade69%
would not trade17%
unsure14%

64 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • enviable5
  • meaningful3
  • stable3
  • inspiring2
  • exhausting1
  • lonely1

one cleaner in Mexico has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with cleaners in Mexico, 64 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 69% would trade, 17% would not, 14% are unsure.

compared with cleaners worldwide, cleaners in Mexico are happier by 2.0 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.6 points, and more envied by 25 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Mexico, cleaners in Mexico are happier by 0.6 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.3 points, and more envied by 13 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all cleaners globally
    happiness +2.0stress -0.6would-trade +25.0pp
  • vs all lives in Mexico
    happiness +0.6stress -1.3would-trade +13.0pp

fragments