## Metadata - Author: [[Lauren Smiley]] - Full Title: The Shut-in Economy - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/ec3ec1294816 ## Highlights - In many ways, social class can be defined by the chores you don’t do. The rich have personal assistants, butlers, cooks, drivers. The middle class largely do their own errands — with the occasional babysitter, pizza boy, maybe a cleaner. The poor do their own chores, and the chores of other people.