Travesty: Abhisit Vejjajiva charged with 'murder'

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Employment as a whole is a dehumanizing and miserable process for most of the world's inhabitants. I agree that the negative impact of working in the sex industry is more severe than what one might experience after a lifetime folding boxes or stuffing meat into bags as a "career", but I also see the two as sides of the same coin. Ideally nobody would be coerced into such an existence, but the machine presses on, harvesting the same herd of desperate poors with no options to grease its gears.

The problem is that one field in compensated for in a much greater fashion than the other by virtue of being legal. The conditions are unsatisfactory to say the least, but there does seem to be a shred of imaginary-yet-comforting dignity in shoveling pig crap for food stamps that isn't afforded to ladies of the night. I don't know that legalization would give it to them, but it would at least provide enough oversight to keep them safer, accounted for and compensated as the workers they are.