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71 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 14 Jun \ on: Porn: Britain's Only Growth Industry (The Spectator, Louise Perry) Politics_And_Law
it would surely be far easier to seek out a wealthy husband
I think this is viewed like the tyranny of a single customer. At least with many customers you have the illusion of control because you can't pinpoint the source of your motivations.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 14 Jun
Elaborate?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 14 Jun
If you run a widget factory, and are contractually obligated to sell all your widgets to Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos has a lot of control over you.
However, if you sell your widgets to whoever wants them, you may be doomed to produce widgets you hate, but there's no single person to blame for you having to do the work that you hate. You'd starve if your customers stop buying widgets, and are thus controlled by them, but it's hard to identify the locus of that control (so we don't perceive it in the same way we do Jeff Bezos controlling us).
This kind of customer/mob control is most dramatically expressed (for me) when content creators are audience captured: #278856.
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