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Who the fuck would have thought this was a good idea (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] etherphon@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I believe they were called pimps

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

At least pimps offered protection, supposedly. I somehow trust tech bros somehow considerably less.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now it's digital services. Whoever made the onlyfans service is rich.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah for sure, what a dream to just think of one thing like that, have someone design a site and just rake in the money nothing else really required. I suppose it isn't quite so simple though, you probably have to suck VC dick every day for a while.