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This doesn't belong here. I flinched when saw this headline, then cringed when I realized it wasn't just a terribly inappropriate reference to the "gig economy

This doesn't belong here. I flinched when saw this headline, then cringed when I realized it wasn't just a terribly inappropriate reference to the "gig economy". I wish we could restrict discussion about sex work to those who have been involved in it, or at least ensure their voices are included. But I know this doesn't belong on hacker news. There's no tech, there's no engineering impact, and it's a dangerous topic given the delicacy of gender issues in a startup culture context.

dang 10y ago
> no tech, there's no engineering impact, and it's a dangerous topic Those are not the criteria for whether something belongs on Hacker News. The criterion is simply that a story be intellectually interesting. This one is complex in that it has intellectually interesting aspects as well as other aspects. But that's not uncommon. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html