People who pay for conveniences in order to delegate their labor these days often confuse their class/caste privileges for a sign of maturity. What you’re confusing for a sign of maturity (people cooperating with you because you are competent/ respected) is actually capitalism replacing your social connections with money. You’ll notice that’s also how they trashed the rest of your society, if you take two minutes and think about it.
I’m at about 35% calories from my own farm and the water infrastructure out here pulls from the river a mile from my house which the village does a bad job of treating, I’m patching together water solutions right now.