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Aella
@Aella_Girl
When I was poor and going hungry, I was willing to take any job. I applied for everything - including a job that involved putting rubber boots on and standing in sewage all day for minimum wage. I don't really understand the desire to eliminate 'bad jobs'.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm glad that there were 'low tier' jobs present to meet me at my worst - they were an *active improvement* from my state of hunger. When people talk about trying to get rid of low tier jobs, I imagine this as removing options for me when I needed them.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
This includes sex work! Lots of people view 'survival sex work' - sex work people do because they'd go hungry otherwise - as coercive or bad. I don't view that as coercive, much as I don't view myself as having been coerced into applying for a job in a literal sea of shit.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@danzyl66
My own point is that peoples' attempts to institute limits around low-tier jobs might end up in a point where I'm hungry, I need food, you're willing to pay me $7/hr but can't afford more, and we're legally prohibited from entering an exchange that would benefit us both.
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@FractalBranches
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@Aella_Girl
(not that i necessarily believe this but) the key assumption is that the system is responsible for ensuring we're all fed. it is directly to blame for our hunger and therefore directly to blame for any unpleasant/hazardous activities we undertake to deal with said hunger.
Doug Jackson
@TheDougJackson
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@Aella_Girl
I think it’s coercive, but no more coercive than the literal shit job. The coercion comes from a system that requires work for money for food. Both jobs are the same in that regard. That one involves sex doesn’t change that
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Joe Mama
@grivastwit
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@Aella_Girl
How do you reconcile expanded sex work with harassment prevention, though? I'm sure Blowjob Intern would overtake Roadside Human Sign Spinner as fastest growing job. This should be its own thread.