The balance of power is strongly tilted in favor of the wealthier person to the extent they’re willing to throw money at the poorer person. Which is to say, that’s as it is normally. With the cash in hand, the cost of chores will rise. It shouldn’t be as steeply as ThisSpaceAvailable says, so that the poorer person doesn’t get wiped out by the richer doing something once a week, but it will still rise. The poorer person is not an indentured servant any way they choose to play it.
Whether this is conducive to long-term happiness or would warp a friendship I don’t know, but I have a hard time seeing it as worse than the rich and poor roommates splitting the chores equally for free.
The balance of power is strongly tilted in favor of the wealthier person to the extent they’re willing to throw money at the poorer person. Which is to say, that’s as it is normally. With the cash in hand, the cost of chores will rise. It shouldn’t be as steeply as ThisSpaceAvailable says, so that the poorer person doesn’t get wiped out by the richer doing something once a week, but it will still rise. The poorer person is not an indentured servant any way they choose to play it.
Whether this is conducive to long-term happiness or would warp a friendship I don’t know, but I have a hard time seeing it as worse than the rich and poor roommates splitting the chores equally for free.