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Well, there are some teachers who moved into the streaming side of the industry and started earning well over 10x their teacher salaries. And the streaming side
by falcolas 3y ago
Well, there are some teachers who moved into the streaming side of the industry and started earning well over 10x their teacher salaries. And the streaming side is pretty tame compared to the "professional" production side of things.
At the end of the day, there's a lot of money in that profession, and I can certainly see how someone would cherish the money it produced for them. It's far from the only industry which participants will age out of quickly.
- PlatinumHarp 3y agoIt's really not different than any other athletic pursuit.
- lukifer 3y agoMy suspicion is that at least some of that revenue is moated by social stigma: that a customer is only partially paying for the service received, and is mostly compensating for impacts to reputation and/or lost income in the future (effectively gating supply and therefore raising price). As such stigmas erode, I suspect we’ll see a reversion to the mean: a small handful of disproportionate successes, and a long-tail of subsistence wages (if not “Walmartification” of sex work). (I’m not taking a stance on whether such stigmas eroding is good or bad.) While I’m certainly sympathetic to the “sex work is work” perspective, it’s worth considering the full implications: for instance, that there would be nothing stopping sexual services being included in job descriptions for other lines of work (“administrative assistant with benefits”). It’s the thin end of the wedge, to ask how truly “consensual” employment relationships can be, sexual or otherwise, in contexts of power asymmetry.