You're taking the stigma attached to prostitution and using that to decree, without personal experience or any hard data that you've deigned to produce, that it couldn't possibly be a rational decision for anyone at any reasonable price.
If by "stigmatize selling X" you mean "refusing to sell X except for a price that is very high compared to what it gets on the market", then of course--you're just restating what I'm saying.
If you mean something else, please clarify.
it couldn't possibly be a rational decision for anyone at any reasonable price
I already agreed that there are high priced prostitutes who are making rational decisions, although I would not apply this to typical prostitutes.
locker-room word of mouth at the time placed an hour at one of the so-called "bunny ranches" across the border at about $200.
1) Do the prostitutes actually get $200 take home pay, not just $200 receipts (some of which has to go to overhead and paying the pimp)?
2) The question about most people is really about most people somewhat like them. In particular, is your gender the same as the prostitutes'?
3) Even if the answers to the first two questions don't make it moot, are you a typical person in this regard?
If by "stigmatize selling X" you mean "refusing to sell X except for a price that is very high compared to what it gets on the market", then of course [...] If you mean something else, please clarify.
I said "social stigma", and I meant "social stigma": the attitudes that make other people think less of you, on average, for taking X as a job than Y. My presumption is that that you're basing your extremely low estimate of the job's attractiveness on that stigma (there's really nothing else to explain orders-of-magn...
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