the feminist librarian reads

This is fundamentally an economy that’s arising to serve the needs of rich and upper middle class people who want it now, as Veruca Salt would say. And it’s a reminder that we haven’t come very far from a history in which there were two groups of people: The rich, and those who lived to serve them. While we no longer live downstairs or on fiefs, we serve the same role that our historical counterparts did, catering to the every whim of a powerful upper class that sees us as a largely invisible source of pleasures and gratification.