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    1. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple Retweeted Discordian Quotes

      Sorry if this is a bit much, as this account doesn’t normally get too far into “adult” matters other than the occasional f-bomb, but consider: the porn industry is one of the purest natural economics laboratories we have, especially with the rise of the Internet.https://twitter.com/discordianquote/status/1327639432443342848 …

      Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple added,

      Discordian Quotes @discordianquote
      Ultimately, pornography is a slave to supply and demand. If Porn Valley is America's dream factory, it bears keeping in mind that its dreams are all yours. https://discordianquotes.com/quote/ultimately-pornography-slave-supply-demand-porn-valley-americas …
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    2. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      Yes, it’s regulated, but not that much, and yes, a few things which are technically porn are illegal (and some should be) but for the most part it makes enough money to manifest significant economic activity and yet its both much less regulated and much less integrated than...

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    3. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      ... almost any other industry of comparable size. Both the beauty (economic freedom and self-determination, the satisfaction of market needs no matter how small or niche) and the ugliness ('unfair' competition, dumping, etc) of free market economics are on full display.

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    4. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      ISTG if any of you make a scat joke about that, it’s a legit economics term. Continuing. Offshoring is HUGE in the live-porn sector, it’s literally impossible to tax or ban absent a Great Firewall or equivalent. Which has the usual result that the whole industry's...

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    5. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      ... working conditions and supply restrictions are basically equivalent to the cheapest or least-restrictive country's except in cases where higher cost/stricter restricted suppliers can compete on quality or special expertise (which is another form of quality.)

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    6. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      I know there are economists who study sex work and porn (hi @eigenrobot) but it seems like usually they’re either blatantly in the “anti-trafficking” camp or at best are like...

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    7. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      “What fiendish, nay, dare we say *perverse,* economic incentives could be enticing these poor souls into this hive of scum and villainy?” That is not really a very scientific attitude, nor a very helpful one. Sex workers are not stupid, and their literal jobs are...

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    8. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      ...telling people what they want to hear and making them believe it’s sincere, if they don’t think you’re being legit they’ll just tell you whatever they feel like telling you for whatever reason they feel like doing it, same as anybody else but far more skillfully.

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    9. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020

      If you are an economics researcher who goes into this kind of thing with an obvious “You're such a sweet young thing, why you do this to yourself?" vibe, trust me, they will fuck with you just for sport, like anybody else being patronized and belittled. H/T @CageTheElephant

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @WhippleMarc @CageTheElephant

      there have been some people who did good work but many of them are pretty tiresome overall it seemed like men do a better job of it, I have suspicions about why this is that i will not be putting in print

      8:22 AM - 14 Nov 2020
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        1. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 14 Nov 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot @CageTheElephant

          “A nod's as good as a wink to a blind man.”

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