Despite the long economics preamble, this does circle back around to cohousing. By many criteria, so is a doctor a servant. I really should deliver my own letters so as not to degrade the US Postal Service. For many positions high status, or its markers, are a necessary qualification. Valuable jobs should be given to valuable persons.
All jobs have two roles, worker and client.
If you do a thing yourself rather than hiring, you occupy both. The power balance shifts, based on factors like rare skills, collective bargaining, or a depressed economy. Power can be taken by the worker rather than given by the employer. If you don't believe, opportunity can pound on the door, lean on the doorbell, tap on the glass, and bellow your name, but you won't hear it above the tv's fantasies about brand-name sports shoes. Or you're cowering in the back room, convinced it's trying to lure you out like a trolling angler fish.