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A comment on The Rise and Fall of RedBook. Parent comment

Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by iopq on Friday March 06, 2015 @01:08AM (#9155820)
If a starving person works for Walmart for $10 an hour, is that slavery?
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Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by stcredzero on Friday March 06, 2015 @04:15AM (#9156273)
Possibly. If their personal situation is sufficiently bleak, and there are mechanisms that are arbitrary and unfair helping to keep them in that situation. However, it's almost universally true that any given person has far more choice than they are aware of.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by iopq on Saturday March 07, 2015 @07:22AM (#9161677)
Sure, then working and prostitution is the same thing. You give your time and services so that you receive payment. Both could be coerced in a bad way like slavery, or being forced into prostitution.

Then the argument is if a person is not forced into prostitution but chooses it as their livelihood, shouldn't it be acceptable?

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