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10 years ago
Joeybanana? Fuggedaboutit! He's good people, a real stand-up guy.
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10 years ago
Okay, I surrender. Like Finland.
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10 years ago
"No I don't think they will ALL become non-extras girls. It will always exist but become less than it is now."
How much less? You never answered the question of what the new per cent age of strippers that are 9's and 10's that would do extras and/or OTC would be. How much will their non-extra income have to increase to offset the loss of their extras income. 20%? 40%? In some clubs it would be close to 90% wouldn't it?
In your model the economy is booming, strip clubs are full of customers flush with "disposable income", and strippers are making money hand over fist ... and quitting the first chance they get so they can go to college or become real estate agents working on commission or a cocktail waitress working 40 hours a week for minimum wage (or less) and tips. Did you really believe all the dancers that told you they want to go to nursing school? You think the average stripper can get a real estate license?
And of course in your model the substitution effect only works in one direction. So there are no new strippers that could raise the supply curve up - no women just entering the work force will consider becoming strippers because Starbuck is now paying baristas $1.60 more an hour. No non-strippers working regular 40-hour jobs will consider becoming strippers making 3x-4x more working 3 days a week because...oh, wait, you never really explained that either.
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10 years ago
"No time for casual reading, I'm still editing "Strip Clubs for Dummies" so we can get it tothe printersin time for Christmas"
Excellent. Maybe we can all chip in and buy San Jose Guy a copy.
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10 years ago
"the supply curve will move down"
Why? We've stipulated that demand (and hence prices) for extras will increase. In your world the number of strippers offering extras will decrease because.....strippers will now all become clean, non-extras Stripper Web girls, forgoing the additional income they could make doing extras, or is it because the current crop of strippers will all be leaving en masse to become lawyers, brain surgeons, corporate CEOs? And no new women will enter the now lucrative and in-demand stripper labor force and offer extras because...???
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10 years ago
"Now let me ask you a question: do you think the % of girls doing extras will go up if there is the economic boom I have in mind?"
Is that a trick question? Do I think the supply of something will increase if the demand for it increases? Er, yes. I think it has something to do with what they call a labor supply curve.
Is there an economist in the house?
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10 years ago
Or were you "wrong" on that figure too?
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10 years ago
So the "rule" someone promulgated on here that 80% of strippers that are 9's and 10's do extras and/or OTC if you "just ask" will no longer apply?
What will the new per centage be according to your theory?
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10 years ago
Seems counter-intuitive, but then I.m not "in finance" like some people.
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10 years ago
Law 3 - The higher the price men are willing and able to pay for extras the less likely strippers are to provide them.
Okay, I think I got it now. Lol
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10 years ago
"it can also have the effect of enticing more hos to get in on the game b/c there is better $$$ to be made."
But wouldn't that be in direct contradiction with the ironclad Dougster-Jerickson Laws of Stripper Supply and Demand*?
*Law 1 - Paying strippers more for less work reduces the overall supply of strippers.
Law 2 - Paying strippers 45 cents per lap dance will result in a near infinite supply of strippers.
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10 years ago
"I just wanna know if hip hop has peaked yet"
Hip hop officially peaked when Taylor Swift rapped in her latest single.
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10 years ago
Not sue what it means, but I scored 12 out of 10.
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10 years ago
"Just technical books for work."
You might want to pick up "Economics for Dummies"
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10 years ago
First it was peak oil, now it's peak skank.
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10 years ago
So strippers will have men spending a lot more on them for doing a lot less and this will result in ... fewer strippers?
Did you take the same economics class as jerikson?
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10 years ago
Shoot, I literally forget to mention Canada's greatest musical megastar - Justin Beiber!
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10 years ago
@clubber - Hey, no sweat if you want to take everything literally. I mean, it's no skin off my nose. I have no axe to grind with you, so it's all water under the bridge.
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10 years ago
" I don't think I understand your argument"
Probably because Its nonsensical - something else this post has in common with one of SJG's, lol
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10 years ago
Ha, I forgot that TUSCLERS are, if nothing else, literal minded.
Sheesh!
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10 years ago
"Dousta, that post has epic San Jose Guy length.
Could you summarize? Should I short treasuries?"
@zip - lol. You realize you're talking about two of the great minds on TUSCL, right?
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10 years ago
"Sweden: ABBA
Canada: Neil Young
Korea: Psy"
Japan: Pink Lady
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10 years ago
" The 5,6,7,8's Japanese chicks were pretty bomb."
@lopaw: +1 for the Tarantino Popo culture reference
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10 years ago
"One more time, and I'll go real slow. "
Slow and bold
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10 years ago
"Steve, isn't it more like "give your income to any woman and she disposes of it"?"
@PhantomGeek - True, lol. I stand corrected, sir!