I was thinking the other day of how I’d live my life if I were exhorbitantly wealthy, and one of the things I thought of would be having a valet do shit that I don’t want to do. He or she could, for example, schedule my cruise on command, sparing me from having to sort through the website and fill out all the forms and yada yada. He could pay my bills, handle household paperwork (like renewing my insurance and all that), be in charge of hiring the household help without me having to fuck around with it, etc.
But there are also things he couldn’t do for me no matter what. Like, he couldn’t get a driver’s license for me - someone is going to want me to take the test and me to pose for the photo. Similarly, getting a passport is going to require me to show up in person somewhere and probably sign a couple of things myself.
What are some other things that one will encounter in daily life that absolutely, positively cannot be pawned off on someone esle? Understand that I’m not talking about mundane realities – no one can take a shit for me or go to my medical exams by proxy. I’m talking about things where, probably the government but I suppose private enterprise can play a role here as well, says to you, “YOU have to do this, your valet can’t do it for you.”
Doing community service or similar punishment (or even I guess actual prison sentence). Plenty of celebs have tried but never heard of anyone getting away with it (though of course you wouldn’t)
(In the Civil War, someone conscripted into the Union Army could pay someone else to go in their place. It didn’t work well. Some men would take the money, then desert and take someone else’s money, and repeat the process.)
ETA: the Confederate Army had a similar arrangement for some time, but repealed it.
With sufficient wealth, you could probably finesse that. Bribe or threaten the appropriate people.
Be anonymous, with lots of body proxies so nobody knows what you really look like, etc.
Fake ID is probably not that difficult if you have unlimited wealth.
I was thinking more of tests for actual medical conditions you have yourself that would need treatment to keep you alive…
Well, we did get some folks to clean the house for us. But we currently have two rather large houses 120 miles apart, and we are both working full time, and trying to move and sell one of the houses. We needed help. ‘Run the vacuum’ sort of help. We’ve two active dogs that don’t help with cleanliness, and they can’t vacuum worth a shit. No opposable thumbs.
We do all our own lawn mowing and stuff. I plan on continuing that as we get older (good exercise). We shall see.
My wife and I pass on the highway. She is staying at one house, I the other. Hopefully that won’t last very long at all. We sort of switch once a week. She can’t work from home, I can, and the new house still needs the lawn mowed and stuff. And we are going to get PV Solar, that should come soon. I need to be here for that.
For myself though, it may be picking out clothes for the day. Um, no. I don’t want ANY help with that. But I’m easy. Shorts, tee-shirt and a top of some sort. Hiking shoes. Done.
I think there are categories of restricted stock which cannot be sold or transferred without the physical presence of the owner. And no one can sign you up for some forms of life insurance without you taking an exam.
