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> "I did a survey of a bunch of escorts and found that the amount of bad things they encountered, like sexual assault, or theft, or police, or whatever, was pre
by StevePerkins 4y ago
> "I did a survey of a bunch of escorts and found that the amount of bad things they encountered, like sexual assault, or theft, or police, or whatever, was pretty strongly correlated with their price range. Basically, the more money you charge, you're pricing yourself out of more sketchy clientele."
This makes a lot of sense. I mostly go to Target even though Walmart is closer, because it's worth the extra 5% or so for me to avoid the people who shop and work at Walmart. I imagine that sex work is the last field on earth where you would want price yourself in the bottom tier.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoI’m curious why this is the result though. I know very very kind wealthy people, but I also know wealthy psychopaths who you would be absolutely charmed by at a cocktail party. What causes how you treat others to be “better” (for lack of a better word) in transactions to skew towards improvement at higher dollar amounts? (edit: sociopaths-> psychopaths)
- some_furry 4y agoWhat is the overlap of wealthy sociopaths that also would hire an escort instead of charming a victim?
- Tarq0n 4y agoThe downside of legal action or reputational damage is higher for wealthier people. Wealthy people also tend to come from higher class families which tend to socialize their children more strictly. That doesn't mean they can't misbehave, but they're more likely to do so in a socially acceptable or legally permissible way.
- lliamander 4y agoI imagine it's a matter of having a lower time preference. Wealthier people tend not to act as much on impulse (or else they would lose their wealth).
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> wealthy psychopaths who you would be absolutely charmed by at a cocktail party. If the psychopath can be superficially kind for a few minutes, to charm me at a cocktail party, then I don't mind being in a store with them. All they have to do is behave in a civil manner when I'm there and not cause a scene. The sort of psycho that bothers me in public is the sort that can't mask themselves. The kind that compulsively pick fights over imagined sleights, or generally cannot control their behavior and act on impulse.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoI'd guess that the psychopaths more likely to do reputation damaging actions have been self filtered out of being wealthy.
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