Imagine if we took the billions dumped into policing sex workers and just... spent it on housing, health care, and cost of living.
Admittedly, this would cut into the amount of on-the-job rape officers were paid to do.
One of the things I mention to chuds talking about capitalism vs socialism and how capitalism is just "way more efficient"... ok, let's say for argument's sake that the free market is better at allocating resources. Even if it is, how could that efficiency advantage possibly overcome how much "dead weight" workers capitalism has? I mean, the jobs we have under capitalism that wouldn't exist so those people could do more productive things. A lot less lawyers and cops. And no need for sales reps, marketing directors, retail associates. And sex workers, and the cops that police them. That's gotta be at least like 25% of the workforce under capitalism. That's just wasted productivity under capitalism that could be better used socialism.
I mean, I agree it should be legalized, but it's just going to be dominated by big companies.
Huh almost as if that shitty outcome that's terrible for workers is the inevitable result of free-market capitalism
The mob is just an illegal company really and companies will put their employees at the bottom of the river too it just gets more difficult. That's why it should be legal though, because workers will be able to win victories and change the relationship over time.
Organised crime is definitely bad. Individual crime against the rich(companies or individuals) is usually good.
I think many leftists get caught up in enjoying the rich(some of them are the mob though) and the state having an opponent in the crime organisation and mix it up with their own opposition to the state.
I’ve meet a weird number of leftists who fetishize organized crime.
Sopranos babyyy
Sure, legal (or decriminalized) > illegal, even under capitalism. The comment I quoted was just a perfect example of missing the forest for the trees, though.
If you want an example of how it's already fucked look at the porn industry and how the entire industry has consolidated behind some opaque companies and brands
Those are some good perks to decriminalization over legalization, but full legalization (and the regulation that comes with it) does a fair amount of good in most work environments, and would probably do the same here. In terms of what might be the best first step, decriminalization might work well now with legalization as the ideal down the line (after we address some of the more fundamental problems surrounding sex work).
I'm guessing that's what the dude was winking at, which is actually pretty funny.
It means a marginalized group of people is no longer under the brutal heel of law enforcement for trying to put food on their plate. Can some of this fuckhead's arterial plaque break free and stab him in the brain for me? That would be great.
He'd survive and just post thru it and his takes would be even worse but he'd be a stroke victim and the civility police would come after you with the vengeance of Khive for dunking on him
The monkey paw curls
imagine if this kind of discourse existed for other jobs. "Leftists say that the police should stop harassing janitors, but did you know that it doesn't poll well? Isn't it a shitty job anyways?"
I love to see two people I loathe talking to each other in quote replies on Twitter
Can we compromise and make it legal for sex workers but illegal for sex solicitors?
