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Peace of mind.

Take care of all my trivial stuff for me. Bills, taxes, money management, politics, corruption and other stupid distractions that stop me from focusing on people that matter.

How much do you want?

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There's a company where I live that does some of these things regarding your bills and saving money. You go in for an interview and you show them all your expenses, incomes, etc. They will work out a budget for you, pay your bills, save money for your goals, send you a bit of spending money for groceries, etc. negotiate with your credit card companies, banks and what not if things are really bad. They set up a bank account which your income goes into, but you can't immediately access it to withdraw funds. Instead you have to call/email them and ask for it, which is good for preventing impulse purchases. Fees are a few hundred dollars for setting up, which is worked into your budget so you don't have to pay upfront, then around $25 a week ongoing.

They can even assign you a person who does all this for you and more. Usually she is called "wife" (or "husband", if it's a "he"). It is rumored that the costs are usually way higher in that case though (especially if you decide on a "wife" instead of "husband").

Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

More seriously though: do you have a link? I find this concept seriously intriguing / weird / ... on many levels.

mybudget.com.au

What kind taking care of politics do you have in mind? The answer depends on whether you mean "vote like I would have for me by still have election days and campaigners and whatnot" or "abolish voting and make everything just work"?

The only way to live without politics or corruption and have fully automated taxation is probably to establish a nation run by a Friendly AI. No such nation exists today but you may increase the likelihood of one existing in the future by supporting Friendly AI research.

This. I know the big-four of accounting/consultancy firms offer these services for e.g. expatriates but they don't take on single "puppets" for logistical reasons.

Small firms mostly lack the wide scale of knowledge required to do said things.

For prices: I know a certain B4-firm asks around EUR 450 (USD 550?) for a single tax return. Extrapolate from there ;-)

You want a personal CFO. This honestly could work, but I don't know how the trust needed to make this work would scale well..

It'd be interesting to look at a meta service to acquire and manage all of those things for you.

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