You get that self employed is still working class right?
They are still providing a service, even if it’s just entertainment
Their main source of income isn’t the exploitation of workers for capital accumulation
This is a basic Marxian framework, you’re the one being needlessly divisive here.
I’m pointing out how when people devalue / de-legitimize sex work, they are participating in class division when they should be focused on class unity.
Why are you classifying OF content creators as sex workers? They are content creators. That is an important difference. The same difference between a reporter/marketer and a channel owner.
OF creators are classified the same way as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and independent blogs.
The same dynamic applies to non sex content. What garners them money is the sale of digital products, independent of the labour put in.
For an independent blog it is the revenue from the online content property that garners money not the labour. They could have spent 1 hour to get $1000 or 100 hours to get $1. What the difference is how many people buy the digital product. Replicating a digital product is zero. So independent blogs get paid for access to content or, for ads, access to an audience, not the work itself. A reporter or marketer by contrast gets paid to produce the content, once the content is produced the owner owns it. For independent blogs, the worker and owner is the same person. So the independent blog gets paid from the revenue generated from ownership of said blog.
OF creators are not getting paid for work, in the same sense a sex worker is. A sex worker needs to work for each transaction, but OF creators get paid for access to an owned and legally protected repository of sex based content.
Furthermore, a large majority of these content creators do not view themselves as working class. They would gladly take your sympathy while getting money from access to copywrited content.
And this applies to non-porn accounts too, once they reach a critical mass.
Hence I don’t think it’s about good or bad workers, it’s more that the system is setup to be unhealthy and manipulative to everyone but the top of the pyramid.
It absolutely does not have to be face-to-face. Since you use Wikipedia:
Sex work is “the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation”.
You’re assigning morals to something that is subjective. People are not being forced or manipulated into giving money on OF. That’s their own choice. Just like it’s my choice to whip out my dick and masturbate. I can choose to give someone money to see exactly what I want, or I can choose to not and then settle for what’s out there.
What a weird sentiment. Sex work is work. I guarantee OF posters are just trying to survive. Like all of us, some are good people, some are not…
Dumbasses will resonate with this shitty reactionary meme and then wonder why there isn’t a united front of working class people
Even according to CRA, social media influencers are self-employed not workers:
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/compliance/platform-economy/social-media-influencers.html
Social media influencers tend to view themselves the same way.
Unity is a two way street.
You get that self employed is still working class right?
They are still providing a service, even if it’s just entertainment
Their main source of income isn’t the exploitation of workers for capital accumulation
This is a basic Marxian framework, you’re the one being needlessly divisive here.
I’m pointing out how when people devalue / de-legitimize sex work, they are participating in class division when they should be focused on class unity.
Why are you classifying OF content creators as sex workers? They are content creators. That is an important difference. The same difference between a reporter/marketer and a channel owner.
OF creators are classified the same way as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and independent blogs.
The same dynamic applies to non sex content. What garners them money is the sale of digital products, independent of the labour put in.
For an independent blog it is the revenue from the online content property that garners money not the labour. They could have spent 1 hour to get $1000 or 100 hours to get $1. What the difference is how many people buy the digital product. Replicating a digital product is zero. So independent blogs get paid for access to content or, for ads, access to an audience, not the work itself. A reporter or marketer by contrast gets paid to produce the content, once the content is produced the owner owns it. For independent blogs, the worker and owner is the same person. So the independent blog gets paid from the revenue generated from ownership of said blog.
OF creators are not getting paid for work, in the same sense a sex worker is. A sex worker needs to work for each transaction, but OF creators get paid for access to an owned and legally protected repository of sex based content.
Furthermore, a large majority of these content creators do not view themselves as working class. They would gladly take your sympathy while getting money from access to copywrited content.
Sex work is face-to-face.
Onlyfans work is the cultivation of parasocial relationships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
And this applies to non-porn accounts too, once they reach a critical mass.
Hence I don’t think it’s about good or bad workers, it’s more that the system is setup to be unhealthy and manipulative to everyone but the top of the pyramid.
It absolutely does not have to be face-to-face. Since you use Wikipedia:
Sex work is “the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_work
Bruh. You just described almost every company on the planet…
You’re assigning morals to something that is subjective. People are not being forced or manipulated into giving money on OF. That’s their own choice. Just like it’s my choice to whip out my dick and masturbate. I can choose to give someone money to see exactly what I want, or I can choose to not and then settle for what’s out there.