Dude, who even knows.

22nd October 2021

Post reblogged from argumate with 208 notes

argumate:

collapsedsquid:

typicalacademic:

I know this isn’t even slightly a new or insightful take but god it’s so weird to contrast Uber (infinite VC investment despite losing billions of dollars year after year for more than a decade) and OnlyFans (made a profit shortly after founding, struggling to get investment or even basic financial services because it’s too “high risk”)

Both of them were really about running legal risks too, laws on taxis vs laws on adult content

perhaps easier to snare investors by painting a picture of the cyberpunk future with flying robotaxis than the cyberpunk future in which everyone is a titty streamer

Ironic thing of course is “the mass of the population is superfluous profitably-intermediated-by-technology contract worker prostitutes” is like, the most cyberpunk premise I can imagine.

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    The American government is incredibly puritanical, and so the laws against adult content are enforced viciously and...
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    it’s the moral panic
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    And even if the complaint about OnlyFans is “regulatory risk”, that complaint can apply easily to Uber too!
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    OnlyFans is following all the explicit laws, just hitting a bunch of informal ones enforced in the shadows of banking,...
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