Jacqui Shine is a writer and historian. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Awl, Pacific Standard, the Chicago Reader, Vulture, the Boston Review, and Longreads, among other places.
Funded by a lifetime of Mattel money, the Ken doll’s namesake (and son of its creator) didn’t have to work a day of his life. Still, he made Delivery Boys
