As a middle class person, you can’t pay someone else a middle class living to fetch your groceries. Or clean your house, or drive you to the airport, or any of

As a middle class person, you can’t pay someone else a middle class living to fetch your groceries. Or clean your house, or drive you to the airport, or any of those things. You can only buy a service like this because the price that will get someone else to do it is small to you. It’s a large scale trend. As an economy gets more productive, a would-be servant’s alternatives get better, and we wind up doing more of our own chores. Generally a healthy sign.