What Would You Outsource if You Could? A recent column in The Times Magazine argues that we shouldn't consider paying someone to do tasks for us to be a privilege reserved only for royalty or oil sheikhs. Instead, economists say it might be worth our money to free up some time spent on drudgery to be used instead for activities that can advance our educations or careers. If you could pay someone to do up to three tasks for you on a regular basis, what would you choose? In "Outsource Your Way to Success," Catherine Rampell writes: [Jon] Steinsson and [Emi] Nakamura, both economists, take the tenets of their field seriously. ... A personal chef is the sort of luxury people associate with hedge-funders, Europeans with several surnames and oil sheikhs. What one to three tasks would you outsource if you had the money to do it? Choose carefully, since picking something like "homework" might not benefit you in the long run. What would you do with your extra time? Do you see this kind of outsourcing of tasks as practical and smart, or more as lazy, irresponsible - or even classist? If you could do other people's dreaded tasks to make a little extra money, what would you choose to do? For instance, maybe you're good at cleaning, organizing, laundry or cooking - or maybe you can fix things or help people put together flattering outfits. What skill might you advertise on, say, TaskRabbit?