People chase net gains. Social standing and achievement, as well as personal satisfaction of say seeing a child learn a new skill, are gains even if not counte

People chase net gains. Social standing and achievement, as well as personal satisfaction of say seeing a child learn a new skill, are gains even if not counted in dollars. These are somewhat individual-dependent. Onlyfans has a pretty big personal cost to subtract if you're a family oriented individual from a highly religious community that dislikes nudity, and you value continued social standing in that community. If you're an orphan who for whatever reason has little personal connection to mainstream society, it probably will come at a lower personal cost to you to be seen as a sex worker. So with sex workers, you're probably gonna disproportionately see people with weaker affiliation to mainstream society and/or connection to conventional family members and values. Greater social acceptance of sex workers is the worst possible thing that can happen to the open-minded schoolteacher and others already in the game as it gives the out-group a less-worse comparative cost. Greater acceptance means lower personal cost / barriers to be seen as a sex worker, so wages depress. Eventually if it's seen as no different than working at McDonald's your stuck competing with literally anyone either attractive or charismatic and it becomes more profitable to at least pick something with a higher barrier to entry like teaching.