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BY KATHERINE BINDLEY | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN WEBSTER
AMANDA JONES, A REAL ESTATE AGENT from San Francisco, toured
her house one day last month and counted the number of people she
was paying to take care of her. There were seven. ¶ April, the dog
walker, was in the kitchen picking up Speedy and Willis – Jones’s miniature dachshunds — for their $35 walk. Up in the master bedroom,
Christina, Jones’s $50 an hour closet organizer was strategizing
with Jackie, her $200 an hour personal stylist, about what to buy at
the Container Store (Jackie’s assistant was there, too, built into the
hourly rate). ¶ Meanwhile, two men were installing new windows in
Jones’s bedroom, but she hadn’t hired them herself — she hired someone else to hire them. They came with rave reviews from Carrie Starner