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> She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift. So lets assume $300 per shift, so with
by bawolff 8mo ago
> She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift.
So lets assume $300 per shift, so with an 8 hour shift, that would be about $37.50/hour of merchandise per hour. So the workers makes about 5.3%. Google says standard for sales workers paid on comission normally get 5-10%.
So its possible this is within what would be normal for a low end non-salary commision job, but it depends on what "hundreds" really mean. Of course i think normally for commision only sales jobs you move much more expensive product to make it worth your while.
Otoh they probably deserve a lot higher than normal sales commision given the nature of the job and all the stuff they undoubtedly have to put up with.
- tclancy 8mo agoWhy? Why do the math on someone else’s misery? What is the best case scenario you could have ended with?
- bawolff 8mo agoThe central claim of the article seems to be that they are being compensated unfairly relative to the value they bring in. I think its a pretty natural question to ask how their compensation stacks up to other industries. The best case scenario you could end with would be that they are not being economically exploited. The worst case scenario would be that they are hopelessly being exploited. The truth seems to be that on a pure economic level they are being exploited about as much as your average low wage worker in capitalism in a poorer country (which is a significant amount of exploitation) but its not quite extreme level of exploitation as the article implies. However, you also have to somehow account for the ickyness/mental affects of the job and its unclear how to do that. And yes, i believe its important to do the math on human suffering. That is how we make a better world. Not all claims of suffering are equal. The millionaire techbro sad he cant afford a private jet is not sufering in the same way as someone who is struggling to pay for a meal. We distinguish the cases by doing the math.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoThey're doing sex work and sales at the same time. Even if it wasn't sex work specifically, they're doing a lot of direct labor which also makes a fair cut much higher than 5%.