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  • squishylildork@lemmynsfw.comtogonewild@lemmynsfw.com•Mods, you guys have a serious issue with suspicious/spammer accounts. Do you have a plan to deal with this?English
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    11 months ago

    What I mean is that this is no different than the same sex work that has existed since Victorian Britain. Despite me appreciating free sexy pictures, people need to make a living. It’s not that this is the way the world always works, but the way it works under capitalism, much like how supermarkets may have buy-one-get-one-free deals, but they ultimately have to turn a profit–and food banks are constantly under attack by lobbyists and libertarians. Or how someone would make indie comics, or set up their own store, but they still need money to keep their business going. Under capitalism, everything becomes a commodity, from the gold and oil of the Earth, to the paintings of Jackson Pollock, to the beaver pelts of Oregon, to the Internet itself–and its pornography. Hence the quote of Marx that “everything, commodity or not, is convertible into gold. Everything becomes saleable and buyable. The circulation becomes the great social retort into which everything is thrown, to come out again as a gold-crystal. Not even are the bones of saints, and still less are more delicate res sacrosanctae, extra commercium hominum able to withstand this alchemy. Just as every qualitative difference between commodities is extinguished in money, so money, on its side, like the radical leveller that it is, does away with all distinctions.” (Vol I, Ch.3, Sec. 3A)