The milk and egg man, the vegetable cart, the guys who would deliver ice, repair your shoes, sharpen your knives would come to your house. You would place your orders for meat and fish and the butcher and fish monger would deliver.
If you were middle class female you used to have at least a "daily" who would come in and help with getting your chores done. Dad usually had his "driver" who would pick him up and take him to work.
So all that is old is new again.
It was nice while it lasted.
I wonder how many of these ‘shut-ins’ just don’t want to deal with the people that also live in the ‘urban paradise’?
Read later.
Actually I’m getting a TaskRabbit to read this for me.
Do your own chores and the government doesn’t get to tax it and the media doesn’t get it’s cut for advertising it.
So naturally no one will do their own chores in a well-ordered society- by today’s standards.
Really interesting story.
Being retired and in the rural midwest, I’m totally distant from this new type of living.
I remember decades ago that in NYC ordering out was pretty common... probably still is. It seems to be a city thing... I order out probably an average of one time per year.
Guys, entirely aside from being alienated from doing your own chores, if you live in San Francisco (or any big city) and you don’t have time to take a casual stroll around town once in a while, to enjoy the view, to do stuff just for fun, you’re not really milking it for all it’s worth. I might rather be one of the delivery minions.
For your amusement
I am a servant. There are entire cities and Obama approved crony corporations that depend on my earnings.
For research.