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What a super fascinating demonstration this thread is of why OnlyFans could never have been a Silicon Valley company. I'm not going to risk getting pulled into
by marvin 6y ago
What a super fascinating demonstration this thread is of why OnlyFans could never have been a Silicon Valley company.
I'm not going to risk getting pulled into any of the ten different arguments going on here, beyond stating that I consider it a very good thing to increase the agency of the most vulnerable members of this line of work. But suffice to say that with this level of vehement disagreement even on whether sex work has any sort of societal value at all, it's really no surprise that this lucrative opportunity has gone to a region that doesn't have these moral qualms.
And that is a little surprising, given that, as the author points out, Silicon Valley takes no issue with any number of other industries that have debatable moral consequences.
- haecceity 6y agoDoes selling advertisements for cars or penis pills provide societal value? I think a lot of things we do don't have societal value but we do it because there's a demand in the market for it.
- bonoboTP 6y agoA lot of human activity isn't about value creation but zero sum competition for limited resources, rent seeking, striving for a relatively higher spot in the status hierarchy, reallocation of wealth, fight for power over each other etc.
- Chris2048 6y ago> I'm not going to .., beyond stating.. So basically, you only want to state your own opinion, and not hear the many that disagree with you? Then why not put it on a personal blog, rather than a site intended for discussion?