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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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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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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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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.

11:31 PM · Sep 4, 2020

Will Isaac Newsome

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perhaps it's unsurprising but I think it says something that my sister did cam work and then porn but ultimately decided to work in a brothel because it's safer and less exploitative. (tbf the first brothel she worked at was also hella exploitative, current one is good.)

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I speculate that the typical sex worker is either of above average or below average intelligence, but not too many are average. On the smarter ones look up what there is to be made and how to minimize the risks, and the maximize the rewards, and the less intelligent ones don't

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Well there's also just the economics here for online content, there's basically no cost incurred for each additional customer and just like video game streaming seems to have a winners-take-most distribution

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The closest mainstream job that ressembles sex work sports, in that you need to earn your money young, there isn't a high likelihood you'll be successful enough to justify the sacrifices you're making, and it's a dangerous job.

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Good points. Except I think you overestimate all that affecting price. The money is high mainly because demand is never ending. Places where sexbots have been introduced put a significant decline on sex worker demand. Introduce the security, etc..., price would have to cover that