Assuming the person has complete agency of their body and life, that's not exactly in your wheelhouse to proclaim with such certainty.

Respectfully, "we live in a society" isn't an answer any more than "the sun rose today". Plenty of European nations reason about this in far more pragmatic and dignified terms than does the United States.

Weird how "we live in a society" until something happens one doesn't like, like trying to ban guns.

I’m always curious what the motivation is when I see someone that is militant about forcing the rest of society to live by their personal moral code. Is this a religious issue for you, @rablo, or is it something else? Why do you wish harm/difficulties on sex workers? Finally, you asserted that it is in fact “in your wheelhouse” to declare that “Sex worker is not a career”. What do you believe gives you the authority to make this declaration?

Prostitution is the oldest career there is in the United States (also one of the very few that is genuinely recession-proof). There have always been, and always will be, people willing to pay for and be paid for sex. Take Australia for example, where it's legal, regulated, and safer - I'm sure there are plenty of men & women making a nice living off of it.

It's one of the oldest careers in human history...

Not only human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals

career - a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional, or business life [1]

It has been a career for ages. Reading the history is pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career

why do you say that?