I’ve framed this as “in the future your children will be servants and nannies,” a provocation that gets to a deeper truth: the most problematic geographical mismatch we face in the U.S. is that large numbers of relatively poor, less-skilled individuals live in rural areas and urban and suburban areas that don’t have good transportation links to affluent, high-skilled households that spend much of their income on high-touch services. Despite, or perhaps reflecting, the popularity of Downton Abbey, many of us are fundamentally scandalized by the idea of serving others, despite the fact that most of us make a living by serving others, whether directly or indirectly. And so we fetishize manufacturing jobs in which the fact that we are serving others is mediated by the fact that we are assembling physical objects designed to serve others.