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Surely the author isn't the only hack journalist at MIT, and I doubt Mr. Wade is the only sex entrepreneur to emerge from MIT.
It's just not that interesting.
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You could also say, "When a young man is in desperate need of money, and a wealthy corporation comes along and uses that vulnerability to get work, that's the definition of exploitation."
Culture and society put aside, all of them are the same. They are exchanges. You get something in exchange for something else. No exploitation in all of these cases. Exploitation is when you give something, getting nothing back; because you are forced to do it. When the girl went and connected with the sugary daddy, no body obliged her to do so. No exploitation here. She could have worked hard to make money, save, ta…
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Hmm. If you asked guys whether they would rather be permanently poor but be able to have sex with attractive women whenever they wanted, or to be wealthy but have no possibility of sex, I'd expect it to be close. (Assuming of course a first world environment where poverty doesn't mean starvation).
If you asked guys whether they would rather be permanently poor but be able to have sex with attractive women whenever they wanted, or to be wealthy but have no possibility of sex, I'd expect it to be close. I'd be very surprised if it were close. I bet almost all guys would choose the former over the latter.
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You could also say, "When a young man is in desperate need of money, and a wealthy corporation comes along and uses that vulnerability to get work, that's the definition of exploitation."
Culture and society put aside, all of them are the same. They are exchanges. You get something in exchange for something else. No exploitation in all of these cases. Exploitation is when you give something, getting nothing back; because you are forced to do it. When the girl went and connected with the sugary daddy, no body obliged her to do so. No exploitation here. She could have worked hard to make money, save, ta…
I don't think you can call it "the easiest road" until you've been paid $500 to sleep with an older gentleman for a month.
And working hard, taking out loans, and saving money is an option, of course - unless the economy is down, or unless you can't afford to take time off school to work, or or unless you have other expenses like children or parents, or unless you can't get approved for loans.
"When a young woman is in desperate need of money and a wealthy man comes along and uses that vulnerability to get sex, that's the definition of exploitation." Seems like you could also say: "When a man is in desperate need of sex and a young woman comes along and uses that vulnerability to get money, that's the definition of exploitation."
All the various comments which go on and on about exploitation fail to see what actually makes most people uncomfortable about the situation.
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You could also say, "When a young man is in desperate need of money, and a wealthy corporation comes along and uses that vulnerability to get work, that's the definition of exploitation."
Culture and society put aside, all of them are the same. They are exchanges. You get something in exchange for something else. No exploitation in all of these cases. Exploitation is when you give something, getting nothing back; because you are forced to do it. When the girl went and connected with the sugary daddy, no body obliged her to do so. No exploitation here. She could have worked hard to make money, save, ta…
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Culture and society put aside, all of them are the same. They are exchanges. You get something in exchange for something else. No exploitation in all of these cases. Exploitation is when you give something, getting nothing back; because you are forced to do it. When the girl went and connected with the sugary daddy, no body obliged her to do so. No exploitation here. She could have worked hard to make money, save, ta…
> She could have worked hard to make money, save, take some loans and carry on her education. She definitively picked the easiest road. I don't think you can call it "the easiest road" until you've been paid $500 to sleep with an older gentleman for a month. And working hard, taking out loans, and saving money is an option, of course - unless the economy is down, or unless you can't afford to take time off school to…
Er... not that I know anything about that.
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> She could have worked hard to make money, save, take some loans and carry on her education. She definitively picked the easiest road. I don't think you can call it "the easiest road" until you've been paid $500 to sleep with an older gentleman for a month. And working hard, taking out loans, and saving money is an option, of course - unless the economy is down, or unless you can't afford to take time off school to…
We geeks tend to downplay how hard physical labour can be, plus we ignore almost everybody around us routinely so this whole "sleep with some stranger for a month" business sounds at first glance to be the easiest thing in the world. Er... not that I know anything about that.