This post will probably annoy anyone who doesn't like rambling, philosophy and metaphor and such...you've been warned.
Throughout the history of (wo)mankind, humans have done everything in their powers to lessen and hopefully stop forced labors of any kind...this includes The work we all commonly must do to live, like washing clothes, cooking, dishes, etc. And EMPLOYMENT. All the way till the 1930s and the depression, humankind sought to get as much leisure time and creative free time as possible. This all ended in the depression, when "employment" became this desirable state that one was terrified if they lacked. In other words, we were convinced to fear leisure and an un-employed state, from our nature inclination towards "laziness".
The point of all this, is that I believe the same sort of magic was worked on our heads as women involved in the Adult Industry. This is evident from those vehemently defending sites that rip them off and take 2/3rds of their money, or the constant pinball bouncing from one site to another.
In the end, there must be a total revamping of the entire business if we want to see different results.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
So, as long as those who have VERY little actual creative input into our business, are COMPLETELY in control of the reigns of money, presentation, worker relations, and customer relations, we will keep getting the same results. Low Pay, poor treatment, poor promotion, and customers who are angry or broke or expect us to perform for them for free or VERY cheaply...
On top of all of this, most of the entertainment and creativity gets removed and the job becomes "banging our pussies with dildos" as we are ushered like cattle down a chute toward what pays best for cam sites.
People who know me might think I adore MFC...however MFC has some pretty grievous sins of their own...I just like that they pay MUCH more fairly than most big sites, and their open camming nature is good for really developing a style...
The main problem with MFC is their lack of attention to their own rules. This creates a situation in which "she who shows most, succeeds best" and although this might even seem like a viable competitive playing field...it isn't...because the camscore jimmys the whole machine, and basically, because MFC has gone the road of "What Serves MFCs Owners Best" albeit to a lesser degree than some...but it is good for MFC to ignore their rules and leave the women scrabbling over each other with dildo shows and fuck machines and almost nothing left for Private Shows.
I have gone ad nauseum into the horrible lacking and (what I perceive as) evils of the Big Camsites like Stream...
AdultWork is VERY nice, and for now is the closest we have to something truly useful, and the indy sites follow closely, although those who know me know why their lack of traffic or investment in it is a HUGE problem to me.
Greed, is one of the MAIN problems we run into....
So, in part two of this thread I will discuss ways around this, and why this so closely follows the "employment" question up there....
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