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You still need to pass through a bank to convert it to anything usable.
How will the banks know the crypto came from porn, though? Receive payments either to your own wallet or straight to Coinbase, convert to USD, transfer to your bank, and we're done, right? What am I missing?
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"ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 20 year old consoles. Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix made content easy to get. There's no equivalent for most ROMs, so they're still widely pirated." The only example I can think of is Nintendo Online. You can play select NES and SNES games on the Switch with a N.O. subscription. I collect ROMs, I've got damned near 4Tb worth. I collect for two reasons: 1. Archiving…
Game prices are part rarity, part demand. Pokémon games aren't rare, but they're always in demand so they always command decent prices. Plus even if millions of copies were sold the majority might not be English versions which are often most popular. Chrono Trigger for example sold millions in Japan and can easily be picked up for less than $20 in Japanese. US copies sold more like 500,000 and collectors outside the…
$20 is exceptionally expensive for a Japanese game.
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And also why piracy is increasing again as the movie/TV series space is becoming so fragmented.
I've actually heard that quite often and it seems anecdotally true to me, but is there actually any study to prove this?
And I pay for Plex.
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> But I agree with you, I'm surprised Steam doesn't have a way to get old ROMs. They sell old games, e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog: https://store.steampowered.com/app/71113/Sonic_The_Hedgehog/ That's a Windows program that runs a Sega Genesis emulator that loads the game's ROM.
That doesn't entitle me to run the game on a much better emulator with RetroArch or apply fun ROM hacks on it.
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Yes, because it's impossible to ever change careers or apply your work ethic to gaining new skills. The idea that you don't have marketable skills having been in the military is also the biggest piece of bunk I've ever heard and you really have no idea what you are talking about. -former infantryman
Just out of curiosity. What are the marketable skills you gain from that? I can think of a few obvious ones just thinking about ‘military’, but wonder if there’s anything specific to being an infantryman?
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-onlyfans-banned...
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That's too many regional managers, I don't think the economy will support that.
A growing economy can support more managers in the future. A stagnant economy will not.
You float the idea of perpetual growth in any other context, and you'd be called a fool, but apparently the economy doesn't obey the same rules of common sense.
Well, I hope you're right.
Why is that allowed?
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The success of OF is more a question of demand than offer honestly. During the lockdowns they were a lot of guys with money to spend but could not spend it on social activities, so a lot of it went on internet websites. But there is also a more long term trend of people having less and less sex and more and more porno consumption. But that can't go forever, at one point if all girls in the world are on sex workers th…
There are plenty of bi and gay people, or people whose porn interests diverge from their attractions. It's only a problem if you assume everyone is 100% heterosexual.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...
That would shift the numbers a little, yeah, but not enough to account for the OP's estimate of a 30:1 male/female ratio.
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Comparing jobs solely based on income is a nonsense comparison. The two class of jobs are so different. Scalability, physicality, career path, longevity etc all comes into picture. The discussion has been going around in cycles for many years.
What I wanted to point was that talking about "employability", people don't have to go to a university to get a degree and then try to find a job. There are other great ways to make enough money to don't have to end on OnlyFans.