Sounds like something a complete loser would do.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Wish I could talk bullshit and be paid for it...
Any market for pale Nordic males?
Only the buttery ones!
Define "buttery" pls.
Up to the beholder!
(It's a riff on 'but her emails' in case you're OOTL)
Its funny how to many the whole concept seems new, but to me it's just the topics and price range.
Escorts, and strippers have been entertaining patrons with intellectual conversations probally for as long as the second oldest profession has been around.
intellectual conversations
crypto
Pick one.
This is definitely not new. Folks I worked with in SF went to parties where there were tech-knowledable escorts back around ~2010.
FINDOM has entered the chat.
Is that the cryptocoin they use for payment?
“Oh baby whisper me your private key”
That would honestly be a perfect name for a memecoin that's aimed at Findom's
this could honestly be from the onion
See, everyone? The market will provide jobs for all the junior devs that get laid (off) because of AI.
Backend developer
Backalley developer
real people who can provide human perspectives on things like AI, crypto and economics instead of just echoing back a tech worker's thoughts on such subjects.
I doubt these guys are paying someone $6k/hr to disagree with them.
No, the prostitute definitely just really likes me. She said I'm the best she's ever had and my dick is bigger than anyone else she's had sex with.
Yeah for sure. Echoing their thoughts is exactly what they want. They just want good acting skills.
are they really that elite if they have to pay people to talk to them? idk
That’s how these lonely bigoted dorks with new money think being rich and powerful and cool works - overpay for whatever you want and force others to give it to you, with money you gained through slave labor, destructive practices, stealing from future generations and corruption. They think might makes right, so yeah, they think they’re elite for paying people to pretend to care about them when they’re not on stage or social media or in a board room.
That sadly seems to check out. I suppose they see themselves as somewhat too good to talk to the common person, so paying someone to talk to them is a privilege for them. Never mind the fact that once you give someone money they are going to change their attitude towards you in hopes you give them more. I wonder if some of these folks have ever had a normal conversation that didn't involve some scifi shit. (I love scifi)
Fucking pathetic that with all bullshit about how elite they are, and how they deserve so much more than the rest of us, they have to fucking pay someone to spend time with them.
They didn't get where they are by being popular
I'm not popular either, but I also don't have to pay people to hang out with me like these losers.
I’m a woman engineer and for that kind of money might be able to stomach this (not that I’m anywhere near attractive enough for them to hire me), but I’m pretty sure if I were attractive enough and got hired they would probably only last a few minutes before I completely emasculated them by actually knowing what the fuck I’m talking about.
Sounds pretty fun, actually, now that I think about it.. as long as I didn’t need to fuck them
I don't think there is any fucking involved, probably lots of crying though.
Fuck, tears of the rich sounds like icing on the $6000/hr cake. Though they would probably expect comfort from me rather than laughter and mockery…
Though they would probably expect comfort from me rather than laughter and mockery…
Just say you're catering to those with a humiliation fetish you get to eat your cake and have it too.
laughter and mockery
some pay extra for that.
🤢
Holy shit that's pathetic
Pay taxes not hookers.
Pay both
Stiff the hooker not the taxman.
I see what you did
What an awful job
A job that makes me in an hour more money than I make at my current job in a year? Sign me the fuck up.
You make less than $6000/year? How? I feel like you could make that much collecting cans for recycling
Paid by hours worked, at 10€/h and not given enough work.
People with the sort of knowledge that can stand real conversational scrutiny will just be versions of the people paying them that have failed to find their way. My guess this would not be about real discourse but gloating about serendipity which is ultimately unsettling and sets up the next visit.
I will take a dump on your AI
Modern problems require modern solutions.
This is one of the oldest solutions
Sex work back then was, I think, a lot more about the sex act. Today it's focused on the escort side a lot, being a human being they can spend time with. Almost a social surrogate. I've known a lot of sex workers who said it was 50/50 on guys who wanted to fuck vs guys who wanted to cuddle/cry/talk. But in this case they're being hired for their knowledge. I bet little of what's happening here is actual sex. Which shows how broken and disconnected our society is - the people driving it, at the bleeding edge, need to pay big bucks for a IRL flesh-and-blood fix. We're all cooked if we continue this timeline of loneliness and fragmentation.
Sex work back then was, I think, a lot more about the sex act.
Nah, there has been a sort of "escort / hooker distinction" forever. In ancient greece they had pornai who were mostly slaves used almost exclusively for sex, and hetaira who were educated and usually free(libra not gratis) and were even allowed in symposiums(salons). There's always been class distinctions with sex work.
... white they're having sex with them.