I am in complete agreement with you on all these points.
The issue is, workers ARE already being exploited. The idea is regulations would bring about safeguards that would try to prevent these scenarios.
But let's say what you said has happened and now someone is in this situation you described. There are two scenarios:
Prostitution is legal
Prostitution is illegal.. now what? commit crimes? starve? It's not like because prostitution is illegal suddenly there are new prospects available to this person in this broken system
I'd argue decriminalization of prostitution does more good than harm in this situation.
Your first fear is completely valid, hopefully good policy and active regulations can prohibit that. Still can't imagine it will be worse than the current state that sex workers face.
For the second point, while job centers are tasked to find you a job in your field, it is funny to imagine a conversation going like:
So I have a doctorate in chemistry with 6 years of experience in my field, looking for a new position
Sorry Dr. we don't have any openings atm, but we do need an office twink, unfortunately our last office twink is now t'was
Idk man, I feel like that's work in general. Like would you be doing what you are doing right now if you could just do whatever you like? Or if you just a better choice?
A lot of us are just trying to make ends meet with whatever tools we got. I don't think making prostitution illegal is gonna help the ones we want to help, but regulating it could. The focus should be having the working person to be the one in charge, not johns or brothels or any other third parties.
No, Hosting has a technical definition. When you rent a server or in this case VPS, the company is hosting you. You can maintain or administer the services but you are never hosting yourself on someone else's computer.
By definition, the cloud provider is hosting you. It's not about being good or bad it just is. If the mod deemed your question to be irrelevant to the community then idk maybe it does matter in this context.
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