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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Why do (some) sex workers earn so much money? 1. It's unstable and unsystematized. A 'normal' profession like a doctor or lawyer has a path clearly laid out for you, with precisely defined hurdles you need to pass through. Sex work is mostly anarchy, with zero guarantees, 1/
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@Aella_Girl
a strong unpredictability and variety of income, and a thousand different subtle paths you could take without clear correlation to success. Sex work is scarier and higher risk, thus it pays more. 2. Stigma. In every thread where people go 'u don't provide anything of value', 2/
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@Aella_Girl
there's a clear disdain and mockery for people who do sex work in a way that doesn't exist for other high-value professions. Sex workers sacrifice the blessing of society, the clear cultural path to romance and family and legal protection, for that higher income. 3/
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3: Lack of general security. Payment processers will shut down your account, you'll inevitably get a few stalkers, future jobs will fire you if they find out, people might hurt you if you're doing in-person work, and also you are eventually going to AGE with WRINKLES. 4/
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@Aella_Girl
So no fucking wonder sex work pays more money. If it had a clear path, no stigma, and security, enough people would be doing it and the price would go down. The money here isn't created just from simps, it's also inadvertently created by all the people who mock us.
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Basil Marte
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Wait what? There's a lot of this directed toward entrepreneurs/managers ("'organization' would be a free good in utopia"), finance, sometimes even merchants ("stuff has some unchanging Correct Value").