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On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, I think it sounds like this idea is hitting a solid 6 or so. Possibly some extra points for the glorified prostitution model of
by ufmace 12y ago
On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, I think it sounds like this idea is hitting a solid 6 or so. Possibly some extra points for the glorified prostitution model of "Pay a ton to fly NYC girls, selected for their desire to spend 5 days out of town meeting rich men, to SF to meet super-rich tech founders"
- protomyth 12y agoSadly, this is just the next link in a long line of similar attempts every time there is a boom where the guys per girl ratio gets above 1. Read some articles about the oil boom in North Dakota, although they don't fly them in from NYC.
- sliverstorm 12y agoRatios close to 1 are tolerated, the real problem is when that ratio approaches numbers like 2:1 (~66% male). It's hard to have a happy town when a third of your population will wind up alone.
- protomyth 12y agoI seem to remember as countries get near 2:1 you get wars.
- stinkytaco 12y agoI hate to be that guy but if this is even close to satire it's a pity because sex trafficking is a serious issue (including in North Dakota and I'm sure in California as well).
- arasmussen 12y agoGood thing this isn't sex trafficking in any shape or form whatsoever!
- protomyth 12y agoYeah, this isn't but there have been problems with actual sex trafficking.
- protomyth 12y agoLook, whoever doesn't believe there is actual sex trafficking going on should look into the issue. Both North Dakota and South Dakota law makers are making quite a bit of noise to bring attention to this issue. This story doesn't qualify as sex trafficking by the definition, but actual sex trafficking is occurring.
- stinkytaco 12y agoOf course not, but taking the previous comment into account: "On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10, I think it sounds like this idea is hitting a solid 6 or so. Possibly some extra points for the glorified prostitution model of "Pay a ton to fly NYC girls, selected for their desire to spend 5 days out of town meeting rich men, to SF to meet super-rich tech founders" I just want to point out that where we can look at this situation and say "That's kind of sleezy" we can look at a circumstances that are very similar but involve a different class (and education level) of people and see some extremely problematic behavior. So yes, it's not sex trafficking, but I feel like it in some ways makes light of truly exploitive sex trafficking that's going on in a first world country. That said, I could argue that it may very well be "sex trafficking" in the sense that a company is moving people from point A to point B for the purposes of sex and their own profit. It may not be exploitive, but it would take very, very little to make it that way. Like I said, I don't want to be that guy, but as I get older I find myself appreciating more and more people's sensitivity to topics that are close to them.
- smsm42 12y ago>>> it may very well be "sex trafficking" in the sense that a company is moving people from point A to point B for the purposes of sex By that definition, significant number of flights to Vegas is "sex trafficking".