Monday, September 29, 2008

Hoooo no.

Falling markets, bankrupt banks, $700 billion in impending national debts. The current state of this mess is growing more depressing by the day, exponentially so by the desperate angles taken by news teams eager to find a new way to spin down and out. But then! Slate did what we had all been hoping would never have to be done:



The story follows several women's struggles to set up "savings accounts" to protect themselves from these kind of standstills in "the industry," kind of like a money market for call girls. The high point:
The trick to surviving lean times, says Caroline, is to be patient and do everything it takes to keep your clients. "They are going to come back. I mean, c'mon, it's Wall Street! These guys are never out of the game for that long. That's what's so great about what I do. If you can keep your cool, it's pretty rare that you lose money. Just make sure you keep the man happy."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hahaha This is amazing.
You're right about how so much of this discussion on the economic bailout is in the abstract and often removed from the real effect it has on the average person.
I think it's fascinating how people in certain professions, such as prostitution, are seeing their economic future altered. My dad, who's a web designer and a photographer, found his photography business floundering with the housing crisis since no one was buying new houses that needed to be decorated. At the same time, his web design business was booming since no new houses were being made and companies were starting to look to the internet as another way to advertise and sell the houses they had already built, but didn't have a buyer yet.