In the morning Mitzi Perdue gets up, makes herself a cup of tea and cracks on with her work as a writer. If she heads out to see any of her four grandchildren who also live in Maryland, she might wave to her neighbors—variously librarians and doctors—who also live in the building where she rents an apartment. Perdue may even walk past a chicken factory bearing her name because she is in fact an heiress worth billions—both through the Perdue chicken empire and the Sheraton hotel group.
Over in Chicago, Elena Nuñez Cooper catches an Uber to work—she doesn't own a car—and spends six days a week working from the shared office space in her member's club, instead of renting costly commercial space.
