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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by rayiner on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:10AM (#33008910)
You overlook the inherently collective nature of labor regulation. Labor regulation seeks to prevent individual choices from creating market-wide pressures and a societal race to the bottom. It doesn't matter if being asked to pitch in on weekends without extra pay "doesn't bother you." We ban you from even voluntarily agreeing to do that because we don't want to be pressured to do that too. Individual choices are restricted to create a floor for everyone.

From that perspective, any difference between "type of work" and "working conditions" is wholly artificial. People don't want to be pressured to work on weekends, they don't want to be pressured to do sex work, etc., so we ban those things to eliminate those pressures.

Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by naasking on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#33009018)
> From that perspective, any difference between "type of work" and "working conditions" is wholly artificial.

It only looks artificial because you cited an example of working conditions, not type of work. The right to refuse certain kinds of work is a perfectly cogent concept and does not require artificially restricting other people's choices.