The same day I quit the retail job someone told me that they thought doing online sex work is "exploiting myself." The work isn't exploitative, especially when compared with these low-wage positions where they overwork and mistreat employees.

https://www.businessinsider.com/great-resignation-teacher-onlyfans-bbw-model-money-jobs-work-careers-2022-1

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I know people who say socialism is flawed because in Cuba a taxi driver can make more money than a doctor.

    Ok, cool. Normal great free market capitalism has decided children require zero education.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      Yugopnik said in a Deprogram episode that he thinks looking at and judging labor hierarchically based on how difficult it is or it’s importance is a really entitled and ungrateful way to view labor which is varied in its forms and usefulnesses and I tend to agree. Seems like a very capitalism brained way of seeing things, I just can’t find it to give a shit what others are making as long as both our needs are met and we’re happy.

      Obv there’s something to be said for extreme outliers of contributions to society but that argument always just assumes too much of the way we do things now is a natural order to me

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I didn't quite know how to phrase how I meant and thought I might have sounded like I was looking down on sex workers and taxi drivers. I don't like discouraging barriers from doing certain jobs. Surely there's something to be said about capitalism currently discouraging people from becoming teachers.

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          3 years ago

          Nah i think you did a good job, I wasn’t really commenting on your take itself as much as expanding on it with something that was on my mind recently
          :stalin-approval:

      • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        looking at and judging labor hierarchically based on how difficult it is or it’s importance is a really entitled and ungrateful way to view labor which is varied in its forms and usefulnesses

        Completely agree. Love thia take.

    • blight [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If anything, the taxi drivers operate according to capitalism, often black market too (the freest of markets). Tourists are willing to spend big money to get a ride in an old muscle car, and their money weighs 20 times as heavily because of imperialism.