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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 110 points 2 years ago

It's the oldest profession for a reason. Everyone is selling their body just one gender can do it more directly more easily and with the Internet doesn't even have to do it with people interacting with their physical body anymore.

When times are rough, some fucker will still be horny.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

Indeed, lots of men sell their bodies. They call them the trades because you trade your physical wellbeing for money.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 2 years ago

LOL I like that. That's a pretty good slogan for a lot of the trades and yeah is often selling yourself just a little at a time.

God, I mean look up death clocks. Our lives certainly seem to be worth quite a lot. If you can sell your time quickly you cash out even faster.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

it's not the oldest profession, if you're willing to exchange something for a resource, the actual first job is obtaining that resource.

[-] raef@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, I think they weren't counting gathering/hunting for self-sustenance. It's like how other primates trade food for sex. Or the chimps that turned to prostitution as soon as they were introduced to symbolic money

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago

Two things can be true

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

And the first resource was...

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure you weren't born with food.

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

Maybe he's a cabbage patch kid?

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're certainly reasoning like a cabbage.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Omg I am dying lol

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's why it's someone's job to get it.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

But you are using the human resource of labour to gather it. We use our bodies to produce all goods and services. I take your point, I just don't think most people consider basic survival tasks to be a profession. A profession is probably best considered to be the first abstraction layer that allows you to do an activity other than those basic tasks to survive.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

You must realize: that all went completely over their leafy li'l green head.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Til Farmer is not a profession

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

TYL farmers aren't simple gatherers.

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

I'd argue the earliest humans probably traded sex for protection via having a partner, which isn't a resource or really a job anymore than "husband" would be considered a job.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

the douchebags constantly spewing "prostitution is the oldest profession" at parties are a riot though, my god, the new ideas they bring to the table, wooo

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

"can do it more directly more easily".

Jep, I guess it's easy to work the most dangerous job you can have. That's why especially people in wealthy countries do it. Because it's direct easy money...

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

I think they were referring to selling pictures of themselves. I didn't really get the joke of OPs image at first, but from the context of the comments it's about selling feet pics lol

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