> <i>"To allow others, whose passion is cooking, cleaning, or assisting in various ways to help me — while I supported them by giving them income to do what they loved."</i><p>If you really want to think about your maid, cook, chauffeur, etc this way, sure... For the majority I'm pretty sure cleaning, cooking, and driving all day wouldn't be top of their to-do list if they had the means.<p>Don't get me wrong, I outsource plenty of things in my life, but I think it's incredibly out of touch and pretentious to think that you're doing someone a favor, and that your maid is <i>really fucking passionate</i> about cleaning. IMHO when you start spouting things like this, you probably lost touch with reality.<p>Like mattm commented, there's a line between outsourcing the menial things and outsourcing things that give your life purpose. I wouldn't mind outsourcing my laundry, but outsourcing my Facebook profile may just defeat the purpose of using Facebook.
I upvoted this article even though I don't agree with "outsourcing life." I would rather learn and do things myself rather than pay someone else to do it for me. Take cooking, for example. The author doesn't like to cook but if she invested in cooking classes for 6 months, I bet she would start developing an interest in it and then she would have that skill for the rest of her life.<p>If you pay someone to do work for you (and you don't know how to do it yourself), you will have to keep paying them forever.<p>It will also cause you to become a one-dimensional person.<p>She does have a million dollar windfall, but a million isn't really enough to last the rest of her life since she is only in her 20s.
as an amateur psychologist, she probably is so immersed in one face of her life (running a business) that when she got depressed by the lack of another (having friends) she focused back on her safe harbor (running a business) to compensate for it. Just saying.