The problem there isn’t the Econ-101, it’s the fool in the arm chair.
You can’t just say “I have a simple armchair argument that no one could ever demand sexual favors”, because that’s not even a valid prediction of Econ-101. Maybe the person does want to provide sexual favors. Maybe they even want to provide sexual favors and then also claim purity and victimhood status to gullible people. That’s entirely consistent with Econ-101.
Or maybe they aren’t productive enough to earn their wage otherwise, and their job is better conceptualized as half prostitute. That’s also entirely consistent with Econ-101.
If we have situations that look like “This person didn’t want it”+”this person is productive enough to earn their wage”, then if we also have Econ-101 we notice a contradiction. We can’t just assume the bottom line that Econ-101 is somehow wrong without finding an identifiable error and be justified in our assumptions. Neither can we assume people will necessarily do what’s in their best interest and assume “This person wanted it, actually”, without finding an identifiable error in the perception that they didn’t.
There’s an actual puzzle to be solved here, and we can’t write the bottom line first and also get to the right answer on anything but chance.
The problem there isn’t the Econ-101, it’s the fool in the arm chair.
You can’t just say “I have a simple armchair argument that no one could ever demand sexual favors”, because that’s not even a valid prediction of Econ-101. Maybe the person does want to provide sexual favors. Maybe they even want to provide sexual favors and then also claim purity and victimhood status to gullible people. That’s entirely consistent with Econ-101.
Or maybe they aren’t productive enough to earn their wage otherwise, and their job is better conceptualized as half prostitute. That’s also entirely consistent with Econ-101.
If we have situations that look like “This person didn’t want it”+”this person is productive enough to earn their wage”, then if we also have Econ-101 we notice a contradiction. We can’t just assume the bottom line that Econ-101 is somehow wrong without finding an identifiable error and be justified in our assumptions. Neither can we assume people will necessarily do what’s in their best interest and assume “This person wanted it, actually”, without finding an identifiable error in the perception that they didn’t.
There’s an actual puzzle to be solved here, and we can’t write the bottom line first and also get to the right answer on anything but chance.