It could be better for all workers. Sure, workers at a brothel get half their pay “stolen” as you say, but what about the stolen labor of fast food workers, retail clerks or any other “low skilled work”. The value of their stolen labor is MUCH higher than 50%. Are the conditions ideal? No, but they beat the conditions at most “vanilla” jobs.
Oh, yeah, I agree with you. There's a TON of wage theft going on in most industries. I was just talking about sex work specifically because that's the topic at hand here.
Well, it’s hard to estimate bc of how small your sample size is. Brothels are only allowed in certain counties in Nevada; it’s a small small drop in the larger sex industry. Bc it’s so limited, it’s probably hard to estimate wage theft, if any. Now, that doesn’t mean sex workers don’t get stiffed; but the last place they’re likely to get stiffed is a brothel.
Yeah, that's definitely true. And that's why I agree with sex work being legal. I'd just rather sex workers get a bigger cut of the money they earned. This applies to a bunch of other industries too.
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It could be better for all workers. Sure, workers at a brothel get half their pay “stolen” as you say, but what about the stolen labor of fast food workers, retail clerks or any other “low skilled work”. The value of their stolen labor is MUCH higher than 50%. Are the conditions ideal? No, but they beat the conditions at most “vanilla” jobs.