Point not made in good faith.
[QUOTE=TheCane;2575035]There is absolutely nothing "shifty" about those numbers at all. It's straight forward arithmetic, and it makes the solid point. And that's for the average working stiff, 50 euros for 30 minutes of work or 100 euros for 60 minutes of work is a [B]lot[/B] of money that would dramatically change the quality of their lives. I knew somebody would respond exactly how you did, and it changes absolutely nothing about reality. Very, very, very few people on this earth can earn 50 euros for just 30 minutes of work. These FKK prostitutes can, that's some damn good money, and they should stop complaining and start providing consistently good service to obtain and keep steady paying clients. There's a good reason for why the FKK cost structure has remained steady for so long. It's been a long-standing promise of premium pay for valuable personal services rendered. It always amazes me how mongers can come on here and promote the "privilege" to pay substantially more money out of their own pockets for the same level of service, or even less![/QUOTE]Hopefully this thread can be discussed with objectivity while wearing big boy pants. "I knew somebody would respond with blah blahs " sounds like how middle school siblings would debate when making statements like "I told you so" It's an off putting comment that's little too ego driven and a childlike way to debate.
While I am not advocating for a price increase (why would I want to pay more? I would be okay with a reasonable price hike after 20 years of enjoying low prices, but not a doubling which is clearly exploiting the situation. Like I said, if the half hour rate is increased to 60 e, that seems reasonable, especially if it puts some girls at ease to deter the 50 e price gouging. It is already 60 in Artemis and Babylon so the market already suggests that this rate is not outrageous.
The shifty numbers point is the extrapolation of 50 e per half hour to:
1. Pure revenue which it is not.
2. A 40 hour work week as if they are guaranteed 40 hours of pay which they do not.
Again, when a business makes a sale in an hour, you will not extrapolate that to 40 hours. If you pay a plumber $200 to fix something that required him to be on site for 1 hour, you do not say that he makes $200 per hour. His service cost $200 but his pay from that goes into the cost of operating the business and time not on a call.
Unless the clubs are paying the girls a guaranteed hourly rate, saying that they make 50 e per half and extrapolating that to a full work week is indeed shifty numbers which does not paint an accurate picture of income.
The point not made in good faith.