I feel like your completely glossing over the whole increased risk of rape and violence aspect that prostitution involves compared to wage labor.

I feel like you’re ignoring the reality that the prostitution industry avoids formal recognition by its very nature. Clients want to stay anonymous, pimps want to stay underground, and many prostitutes want to remain under the radar. Formal recognition is a necessary prerequisite for regulation and labor law.

Do you plan on this being a lifelong career for you? Why or why not?

This is such a lib take that it pains me to read it. The whole post is worth a read, btw.

https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0

Such a complete misunderstanding of the industry is the result of a flattening of distinctions between all work and a misunderstanding of Marxist theory. Wage labor is exploitative because of the surplus value extracted from the workers’ labor. Prostitution is sexual exploitation because it feeds off of extreme vulnerability to maintain a class of prostitutes, coerces sex through money and power, and exposes those women to high amounts of rape and violence. Not all work involves coercive sex, not all work comes with the high risk of rape and male violence in whatever legal context it operates under. Not all work puts the body and it’s component parts on the market to be bought, sold, and rented at will to the highest bidder.

One IBM Model M that I got for free and I’m set for life.

The main issue that this doesn’t deal with is that it in no way stops a company from straight up closing any location that does try to unionize.

“Oh no, we must recognize your union… and in unrelated news, your location is now closed. Feel free to apply to the new location we’re opening up a block away.”

Sleep as Android. I don’t even use 75% of the features, but it’s the best alarm clock I’ve ever had. Never slept through work since I got it.