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Re: How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less

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Disclaimer: Freakonomics to me embodies modern business writing at its worst. Anecdotal, single case half-correlations that try to pretend they’re something more than fluff entertainment.

In this article, they truly don’t disappoint.

A hilarious and misguided glorification of what, I imagine, is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes.

Written like a recruiting pamphlet, to boot.

And the answer to how a prostitute can earn far more by working far less?

Price elasticity of demand!

Stunning discovery Freakonomics.

/End Rant

Re: How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less

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Disclaimer: Freakonomics to me embodies modern business writing at its worst. Anecdotal, single case half-correlations that try to pretend they’re something more than fluff entertainment. In this article, they truly don’t disappoint. A hilarious and misguided glorification of what, I imagine, is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes. Written like a recruiting pamphlet, to boot. And the answer to how a prost…

is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes

How is that conclusion much better than the one you're attacking?

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Disclaimer: Freakonomics to me embodies modern business writing at its worst. Anecdotal, single case half-correlations that try to pretend they’re something more than fluff entertainment. In this article, they truly don’t disappoint. A hilarious and misguided glorification of what, I imagine, is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes. Written like a recruiting pamphlet, to boot. And the answer to how a prost…

is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes How is that conclusion much better than the one you're attacking?

I think his point in that example was that articles that seek to glorify something that supports human trafficking, sex slavery, and forced rape - all of which millions are currently victims - should be based on more than conjecture and assumptions.

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is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes How is that conclusion much better than the one you're attacking?

I think his point in that example was that articles that seek to glorify something that supports human trafficking, sex slavery, and forced rape - all of which millions are currently victims - should be based on more than conjecture and assumptions.

Spot on.
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