Prostitutes have joined the neoliberal “free trade” brigade:
Yes, let’s not bring manufacturing back because being a whore is more fun anyway.
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Prostitutes have joined the neoliberal “free trade” brigade:
Yes, let’s not bring manufacturing back because being a whore is more fun anyway.
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“joined the neoliberal “free trade” brigade”
Just what we needed…. Whores without Borders / Putains sans Frontières
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Lord help me Jesus, being a whore is something that disgusts me to the core of my being. Working in a factory might be boring and repetitive but it is honest work, the same as working in a McDonald’s or a Walmart.
Too many young women think being a “sex worker” is fun and glamorous and an easy way to make money but the idea of an actual job is boring and stupid. I’ve encountered high school girls who want to be on Onlyfans when they’re 18 because they think they’ll make a lot of money and it’ll be fun, that going to college or getting a job is for suckers. They see pretty young women who are on Onlyfans or who are “influencers” and think hard work and studying is for suckers. I’m glad I’m plain and had strict parents, from a young age I was told to go to college and get a job and that being a whore is disgusting
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This will only change when enough of us express horror and disgust openly towards these “choices.”
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And it doesn’t help that movies like Anora being Best Picture portray “sex work” as glamorous and fun, or that Onlyfans is a thing. I’m still in shock that Lily Phillips claims her parents are okay with her “job”, they sound deluded. I wasn’t raised religiously, my parents went to church for social reasons, but I was still taught that being a whore is disgusting and shameful, my parents were just very conservative. Normally I don’t care what adults get up to in private, but encouraging sex work to young people is dangerous in a lot of ways, it’s not cool or glamorous at all
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What everyone appears to be missing is that there may not be much need for factory workers at all. I really do wonder if this entire tariff situation arose because this is a good time to bring manufacturing back to the US since with the current levels of automation most tasks can be done without workers. So the workers from the US are not competing against the cheaper workers in another country for their jobs, but all of these workers are competing for their jobs with machines. It appears to me that all this discussion about boring menial jobs is just one big distraction.
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Definitely, it’s a distraction. Instead of talking about menial jobs, I’d like somebody to justify how it’s a great idea to have our medications manufactured by a hostile regime. Whoever engineered that situation is guilty of treason, in my opinion.
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I mean, it’s Aella posting that and she’s…niche? She does (in my bubble of the internet) seem to have a pretty wide audience, but for her “rationalist” stuff more than the sex-work stuff. At any rate, I don’t ever generalize her preferences to anyone else because she is at the far end of several spectra…
But the OP is apparently at the far end of some spectrum or other too (the troll one – that post reads like sarcasm to me – or maybe the clueless one), because factory work, while a solid steady job for many for decades, is hardly a back-to-the-land kind of thing.
Strong agree on the need for domestic medication manufacture!
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Strangely, none of these objections to factory work surfaced when the entirety of the left was weeping over “Roger and Me.” Somehow, back then, it was widely accepted that the loss of those manufacturing jobs was a terrible calamity for the workers.
What I find extraordinary is how easily the same left that wept over those workers not three minutes ago is now mocking them and lecturing them on the need to whore out their daughters instead of asking for jobs.
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In terms of technological advances and their effects on the nature of all kinds of work, 1989 is three centuries ago, not three minutes. And that changes everything.
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Does it change compassion? If technological advances inspire you to despise people who are thrown out of productive life, then the problem lies within you and not within technology.
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Technological advances don’t make me despise such people. But my feelings are irrelevant.
My compassion does not make me magically capable of changing the nature of civilization and human technological advancement. Globalization is merely one of the things that concentrates power and resources among the few, depriving the many of them. Technology is the bigger one, and always has been.
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We have a choice about technology.
Why don’t we exercise it more?
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