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What's your opinion on prostitution? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The thing is, the longer you're out of work, the more they pressure you to apply for jobs outside your regular qualifications. It may be unthinkable to you now, but: rise of misogynist techbros, AI programming "matching" candidates to openings (with all the inbuilt biases and hallucinations that come with that), AI and unthinking automation in government services, cutbacks and deliberately programming for frustration in customer service - I can definitely envision people on unemployment being encouraged to work as a prostitute.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, from the sort of cold, heartless, detached, and incredibly oversimplifying level that those sorts of governmental decisions happen at... selling sex is one of the few things just about anyone can technically do. It's also the kind of thing that it would be hard to prove doesn't have effectively infinite demand.

    I can totally see bureaucrats going: "You've got working holes, go get to it."

    Let me say again, that's a horrid oversimplification of reality, but one that I can easily imagine coming out of government organizations.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I am in complete agreement with you on all these points.

    The issue is, workers ARE already being exploited. The idea is regulations would bring about safeguards that would try to prevent these scenarios.

    But let's say what you said has happened and now someone is in this situation you described. There are two scenarios:

    1. Prostitution is legal
    2. Prostitution is illegal.. now what? commit crimes? starve? It's not like because prostitution is illegal suddenly there are new prospects available to this person in this broken system

    I'd argue decriminalization of prostitution does more good than harm in this situation.

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