The Great Resignation ‘21

[paulster2626]

The problem is you fundamentally misunderstand the market. It has nothing to do with pics, and everything to do with the perception of individualized, "girl friend experience" interactions. When people subscribe or pay for OF content, they are looking to fill a gap of loneliness that traditional porn doesn't come close to touching - for the guy with a foot fetish, he finds a model that has beautiful feet, accepts him for the weirdo that he is, and treats him like a person. The model might DM a fan and say "babe I sure wish that I could get those new Louboutin heels, don't you think my feet would look stunning in them"? and naturally, he wants to feel like the girl's boyfriend and have the experience of spoiling her and getting her what she wants.

Of course OF consumers know where to find free porn - that's not the point at all. What OF gives them is the experience of waking up to a picture message in their DMs from the girl of their fantasies who says something like "Wish you were here to make me coffee this morning" - disregard the fact that she spammed that same message and the same picture to 400 of her premium subscribers. He feels a personal connection, validation for whatever weird ass fetish he has, and a sense of being desired.

Anyway, I'm not trying to defend the practice, and it's probably weirder than any of you realize, but it certainly is not just paying for bikini pictures.

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I just pay for the bikini pictures.

[riser4]

Some folks are apparently pretty hard up since Sears&Roebucks stopped sending out their awesome underwear catalogs.

Heh. Hard up. Heh

[Dantheman]

The problem is you fundamentally misunderstand the market. It has nothing to do with pics, and everything to do with the perception of individualized, "girl friend experience" interactions. When people subscribe or pay for OF content, they are looking to fill a gap of loneliness that traditional porn doesn't come close to touching - for the guy with a foot fetish, he finds a model that has beautiful feet, accepts him for the weirdo that he is, and treats him like a person. The model might DM a fan and say "babe I sure wish that I could get those new Louboutin heels, don't you think my feet would look stunning in them"? and naturally, he wants to feel like the girl's boyfriend and have the experience of spoiling her and getting her what she wants.

Of course OF consumers know where to find free porn - that's not the point at all. What OF gives them is the experience of waking up to a picture message in their DMs from the girl of their fantasies who says something like "Wish you were here to make me coffee this morning" - disregard the fact that she spammed that same message and the same picture to 400 of her premium subscribers. He feels a personal connection, validation for whatever weird ass fetish he has, and a sense of being desired.

Anyway, I'm not trying to defend the practice, and it's probably weirder than any of you realize, but it certainly is not just paying for bikini pictures.

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Checks out (relevant part starts at 4:45):

[SumJongGuy]

I'm on the tail end of the last day of a full two week staycation. My job is pretty fucking sweet, hardly ever have to work late and comes with downtime between a couple days of chaos here and there. It's 100% WFH and has been for all but 3 of the past 15 years. We had just gone back to 3-4 days a week in the office fall of 2018.. Then March of 2020 back to 100% WFH. I'm still dreading having to adult for other adults again tomorrow. If it wasn't just 2 days then weekend I'd be dreading it more.

Point is, I can see after a long break how people are deciding to just NOT return to jobs that really do suck. Kid's college bill for spring semester is also definitely influencing the decision to log back in to the money source tomorrow morning.

[old goat]

Some folks are apparently pretty hard up since Sears&Roebucks stopped sending out their awesome underwear catalogs.

Hard to wipe your ass with online bikini pics though.

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[neufox47]

The problem is you fundamentally misunderstand the market. It has nothing to do with pics, and everything to do with the perception of individualized, "girl friend experience" interactions. When people subscribe or pay for OF content, they are looking to fill a gap of loneliness that traditional porn doesn't come close to touching - for the guy with a foot fetish, he finds a model that has beautiful feet, accepts him for the weirdo that he is, and treats him like a person. The model might DM a fan and say "babe I sure wish that I could get those new Louboutin heels, don't you think my feet would look stunning in them"? and naturally, he wants to feel like the girl's boyfriend and have the experience of spoiling her and getting her what she wants.

Of course OF consumers know where to find free porn - that's not the point at all. What OF gives them is the experience of waking up to a picture message in their DMs from the girl of their fantasies who says something like "Wish you were here to make me coffee this morning" - disregard the fact that she spammed that same message and the same picture to 400 of her premium subscribers. He feels a personal connection, validation for whatever weird ass fetish he has, and a sense of being desired.

Anyway, I'm not trying to defend the practice, and it's probably weirder than any of you realize, but it certainly is not just paying for bikini pictures.

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Ahh I see it’s not access to content it’s the connection. Makes more sense.

[old goat]

I've noticed that not a lot of people are complaining about undocumented immigrants lately.

[Mazderati]

That's in another two years.

[Conundrum]

I've noticed that not a lot of people are complaining about undocumented immigrants lately.

Waiting for materials pricing to come down to finish the wall. Remember, fiscally conservative party...

[smartyiak]

Is the opposite of resignation true? Should I just throw my resume out there at various linkedin jobs? Not really looking (I like my job), but if I saw something interesting and they were to give me a 50% raise b/c they can't find anyone else to show up and work hard, that would be awfully hard to pass up.

[SumJongGuy]

Is the opposite of resignation true? Should I just throw my resume out there at various linkedin jobs? Not really looking (I like my job), but if I saw something interesting and they were to give me a 50% raise b/c they can't find anyone else to show up and work hard, that would be awfully hard to pass up.

Personal observations suggest that quite a few people walking away from shitty jobs are landing better ones.

[dunfree]

I've noticed that not a lot of people are complaining about undocumented immigrants lately.

you mean complaining about the lack of, right? Because the venn diagram of people bitching they can’t eat out because there’s no staff and the people bitching about illegals are concentric circles.


now this is an actual article from today. We live in strange times.

U.S. Hospitals Struggle to Match Walmart Pay as Staff Flees Omicron

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-07/hospitals-struggle-to-match-walmart-pay-as-staff-flees-omicron

[riser4]

Unfortunately higher wages will get passed on to consumers instead of being clawed back from profits and forty years of executive [over] compensation.

[climberevan]

Unfortunately higher wages will get passed on to consumers instead of being clawed back from profits and forty years of executive [over] compensation.

This, 1000X. It's going to take a full-on collapse of society to reset the board because people can't see what's right in front of them.

[Peruvian]

Unfortunately higher wages will get passed on to consumers instead of being clawed back from profits and forty years of executive [over] compensation.

Matt Stoller's got you covered

[SumJongGuy]

Unfortunately higher wages will get passed on to consumers instead of being clawed back from profits and forty years of executive [over] compensation.

This, 1000X. It's going to take a full-on collapse of society to reset the board because people can't see what's right in front of them.

Matt Stoller's got you covered

Even the 2008 epic collapse didn't budge the 1% on anything. They got bailouts to be used as their normal obscene bonuses at Goldman Sachs.. That's the same fuckers who crashed it then they used the bailouts to buy it all back cheaper keeping the windfall. further consolidating the wealth amongst themselves out of the 401Ks and real estate of regular people who lost when things crashed.

[old goat]

I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again and again and again)--My grandfather was right. Capitalists should be lined up against a wall and shot.

[sirbumpsalot]

I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again and again and again)--My grandfather was right. Capitalists should be lined up against a wall and shot.

You volunteering to be first?

[ötzi]

He's a Doctor, Jim, not a banker.

[SumJongGuy]

You volunteering to be first?

I'd go first if it guaranteed a legit redistribution of all of the wealth hoarded by the .01% among the poorest of the poor. To make the world a more equitable place for my children and grandchildren?? In a heartbeat I'd take that bullet to the head.

[liv2ski]

Be careful what you're down for as it may be coming in the next few years. But ya, I agree with you.

[ötzi]

My Dad was an avowed socialist but he sometimes said, even if you divided all the money equally among everyone, in 5 years it would all be back where it started. Seizing wealth isn't gonna do anything unless the system is changed.

[riser4]

My Dad was an avowed socialist but he sometimes said, even if you divided all the money equally among everyone, in 5 years it would all be back where it started. Seizing wealth isn't gonna do anything unless the system is changed.

Exactly. Policy, not seizure. With the latter, people just get hurt.

[climberevan]

Even the 2008 epic collapse didn't budge the 1% on anything. .

2008 wasn't an "epic" collapse of society. It could (should) have been an opportunity to reassess how we structure things and rebuild better, but people decided to just patch up the system and get right back to hedonism. Fixing it would have required sacrifice and foresight, both of which are sorely lacking in our world.

What I'm talking about is a collapse sufficient to FORCE a restructuring. I wish we could do it without that, because it will suck giant donkey balls for everyone, but it's where we're heading. Unfortunately afterwards there's still little reason to hope that a more sustainable society will rise from the ashes.