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"In cities where short-term rentals remain technically illegal, we don't
typically think of Airbnb hosts as operating in a black market. Nor do we
consider Uber drivers skirting the law — making, for instance, illegal airport
runs — to be 'hustling.' But the kind of parallel activities Dash cites have
been heavily criminalized, with the further help of anti-loitering laws. Black
children selling candy bars come to be treated as criminals."
Via A.V. Flox, who wrote:
This article doesn't explicitly mention sex work, but it should. The >
reasons are exactly the same: People with limited choices using what they've
got to pull themselves out of poverty, or otherwise stabilize their financial
situations.
Lionel Lauer added:
America tells poor people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, > but
then jails or even murders them when they try to take that > advice.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
