The pilot-copilot method works for some, but for most it's not an equitable partnership for most these days.

I think a better analogy for a modern life would be a navigator/ship's engineer model. My grandparents had an early form of this model and it worked well for them. But you wouldn't believe the shit they BOTH got from the community and their friends. Unreal. But they were more successf than their neighbors on all counts, so .....