Zambian miners rise up, kill Chinese mine owner

[opebo]

Freedom fighters.

Now if the Chinese slaves would rise up and kill those above them in China, and the American ones in America, and so forth.  I suppose it isn't impossible.

[opebo]

Now if the Chinese slaves would rise up and kill those above them in China, and the American ones in America, and so forth.  I suppose it isn't impossible.

They should start in Thailand first.

Heheh, you mean I should rise up against the ladies I pay out loads of money to each month?

[opebo]

You're not one of the slaves, and I thought one reason you liked the place was that you didn't have to pay as much.

Well, compared to the price of other things, and normal salaries, working girls are much more expensive here - say $35 baht for a high-quality 1-3 hours, compared to a normal working-class wage of about $10/day.  In the US you'd pay $200 for the same service, and a normal working class wage is nearly $100/day. 

Heheh, you mean I should rise up against the ladies I pay out loads of money to each month?

So, when you're paying people for their work they're exploiting you but in all other instances when someone gets paid it's the people getting paid who are exploited?

It was a joke, buddy.  The serious implication is, of course, that in terms of repeat visits this kind of thing becomes a rather personal relationship..  Just like the case of gold-digging wives in the US, it isn't always so clear who is exploiting who or who has the 'power'.   

[opebo]

Who an angry mob kills is very significant when it comes to understanding the situation and what happens next, Nathan.

Precisely, which is why some of us applaud this as a possible first sign of some kind of government-changing event or process.  If not an immediate revolution, perhaps some other chaos - an 'Arab-spring' style civil war, or riots leading to a coup.. anything is better than the status-quo of utter and total capitalist domination.

[opebo]

But do you do repeat visists with all of them? I'm sure that's only a part of the industry.

Of course.  Nor was I intending to cover 'every case'  in my comments.

Regardless, it's not obvious to me that the personal nature is exclusive to the sex industry, nor that it necessarily implies that you're being exploited. I just find it amusing how your standard principle suddenly reverses so conveniently when it comes to your own life.

No, its really more of a matter of not being too much of an ideologue - in the same way I don't get too serious about the exploitation done by very small scale 'private business', as I see all around me here in Thailand.  Nor, after all, have I ever offered either a plan for a society without exploitation, or proposed eschewing it personally.