Sex work is cool and all but it's also cool to be able to support your friends without it requiring them to give you pictures of their buttholes in exchange for money. I can't help but feel like this particular phenomenon is a product of a uniquely American capitalist hellscape and that maybe this sort of thing wouldn't need to be a normal occurrence in a semi-functioning society. What do you guys think?
I wouldn't fall in to the trap of speculating on the conditions of poverty through the process of analysing it's outcomes. That's causally backwards.
We're well placed to say the conditions of poverty effect all behaviors and poverty should be eradicated because those conditions are bad.... it's not because the behaviors that result from them are. Otherwise you isolate the argument and allow bias to dictate everyone's conclusions.