Like in almost any society, Zimbabwe has some sex workers
Whole country started to see food shortage/a famine/third party takeover of farmland,
So prostitutes want to be paid directly in crops either because of a recent food scarcity development / because they're... Starting their own farms! Yippee!
The main reason why people don't want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).
But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn't retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.
Who started this ridiculous trend where the fucking words letters are substituted with symbols or numbers.
Sex. Why can't sex be written?
I've seen it with tons of other words too but can't remember the which ones.
And it's Zimbabwe, which is like 80 something percent Christian according to Wikipedia, so their cultural mores might be different from more liberal and progressive areas.
Is anyone else here enough of a 90's kid to remember the TBS show Dinner and a Movie? The theme song for it just popped into my head. Doot, doo do beans and cornbread doot doo do beans and cornbread.
i have three pieces of lint and a button that does not match. anything. i think a witch cursed it.
can i purchase a couple knowing looks, two nods and a hmmmyes with that or do i need more? i have three buckets of lymph i can also trade (hardly any of it is mine) in the garage but i was saving that
Seems like like this could be rephrased as: people driven into prostitution to avoid starvation.
The way it's phrased is that they added an additional payment method, not that people are turning to prostitution to eat.
Could just be that food is all the Johns have to pay with.
I imagine it's as follows:
Maybe they’re radical anti-capitalists doing what they can to move their economy to a barter and trade system?
The main reason why people don't want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).
But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn't retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.
Something like this could be rephrased as: economy is so bad that no one has money for sex.
Not that I've always gotten as much sex as I wanted, but I've never needed money for it.
How about corn
Haha
Yep. Sad stuff.
https://www.afrogazette.co.zw/zimbabwe-sx-workers-still-accepting-rice-beans-as-payment-for-their-services/
Who started this ridiculous trend where the fucking words letters are substituted with symbols or numbers. Sex. Why can't sex be written? I've seen it with tons of other words too but can't remember the which ones.
It sorta makes sense on overly censored social media platforms but what, that's an article on their own personally managed website? That's bizarre
Advertisers avoid placing ads in controversially named pages. They are likely protecting their income
And it's Zimbabwe, which is like 80 something percent Christian according to Wikipedia, so their cultural mores might be different from more liberal and progressive areas.
And as the Bible says, God is stupid and if you change one letter he doesn't know that you are talking about sex. (Matthew 69:420)
and has tyrannosaurus vision so if you stand perfectly still you can sin all you want
Mormons bouncing in glee right now.
you know i love it when i tee up a joke and someone hits it just right
T1ts
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Because modern journalism is ad supported, and advertisers don't want their ads next to anything related to sex.
Now all that's needed is a centralized web location to connect those scantily clad ladies seeking corn with those willing to spill their beans.
A cornhub, if you will.
Bravo!
On my home feed:
Same here. Was just about to post it in both threads lol
Why are 'beans' and 'corn' in quotes there? Are they euphemisms for something else?
Sometimes quotes are ‘wrongly’ used for emphasis.
You beans and corn. You brought her here.
I'm Captain Jenks of the Horse Marines
I feed my whores on corn and beans
I often live beyond my means
I'm a captain in the Army!
This sounds like the worst rap lyric of all time.
And we’ve already had “rest in peace my granny she got hit by a bazooka”
They don’t call it the oldest trade in the world for nothing
Flashbacks to 2023 Lemmy
Start the bean machines!
Is anyone else here enough of a 90's kid to remember the TBS show Dinner and a Movie? The theme song for it just popped into my head. Doot, doo do beans and cornbread doot doo do beans and cornbread.
Beans and cornbread had a fight!
Who won?
Never trust a hooker trying to sell you corn....or....hear me out...Hanna on 35th! She's got the best corn!
Might just be a weakness if currency. Or availability crisis. Usually the value of food stuffs is much lower than the service of a prostitute.
The screenshot is way to little information to go in any direction.
I like the pictures of corn and peas in the meme in case we can only understand by image
good, more trading of things.
Definitely not, it’s bad for the most vulnerable portion of society to not have access to money. You can’t pay rent or a doctor with corn and beans.
You can pay for prostitutes, which means the situation is dire. Doctors can probably be bargained with in this scenario if you have the beans to pay.
I'm a therapist in the states and I accept barters
Lookit Atticus Finch over here
i have three pieces of lint and a button that does not match. anything. i think a witch cursed it.
can i purchase a couple knowing looks, two nods and a hmmmyes with that or do i need more? i have three buckets of lymph i can also trade (hardly any of it is mine) in the garage but i was saving that
Shoot, with all that you can even get a "and how does that make you feel?
oh i don't need one of those i know how it makes me feel. it makes me lymphy. it's why i have the buckets.
I’m old enough to remember a republican Senate candidate getting dragged for suggesting this as an alternative to the ACA.
You can. People used to pay in cigarettes, too.
The worth of food being high enough for this to be plausible, that's the issue. Also food has a very stable value.
I went down to the corn-chemical exchange bank, and gave em 2 ears a corn, and they gave me 2 beakers a chemicals!
just need some rice and you got a healthy balanced diet for a family of everyone
Two grains?! That's not balanced.
you gotta look at the amino acids and shit. mostly shit.
You must be a scientist.
some kinda ist
*looks at you funny*