How much would you pay to be my friend?
June 3, 2013
I am on my way to D.C. for a health analytics conference, where I hope to learn the state of the art for health data and modeling. So stay tuned for updates on that.
In the meantime, ponder this concept (hat tip Matt Stoller, who describes it as ‘neoliberal prostitution’). It’s a dating website called “What’s Your Price?” where suitors bid for dates.
What’s creepier, the sex-for-pay aspect of this, or the it’s-possibly-not-about-sex-it’s-about-dating aspect? I’m gonna go with the latter, personally, since it’s a new idea for me. What else can I monetize that I’ve been giving away too long for free?
Hey, kid, you want a bedtime story? It’s gonna cost you.
Categories: data science, modeling, news
mathbabe 
wow… so much honesty hurts.
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This is a Nevada brothel the way Goldman Sachs would build one.
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It is only appropiate that a “John” would make a comment in this post 😉
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Here are some others: http://www.oddee.com/item_98141.aspx
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They definitely try to stress it as it’s-possibly-not-about-sex-it’s-about-dating aspect in advertisement. In fact, they seem to have a whole anti-escort disclaimer, although I always thought escorts also advertise as a “date”.
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Well, you could lease your body in a different way — use it as a billboard.
http://leaseyourbody.com/main.php
Hat tip to Michael Sandel whose excellent book “What Money Can’t Buy: Moral Limits to Markets”. He has this example and many other disturbing ones that show that while there may be moral limits to markets, there don’t seem to be many legal or practical ones.
Professor Sandel, among others, are discussing these issues next week at a free public forum in Central Park. http://www.shakespeareinthepark.org/?_escaped_fragment_=the-public-forum/c100q#!the-public-forum/c100q
Sandel does Socratic dialogues. I’d love to see Jamie Dimon or David Koch will show up to discuss the question.
Jamie and David, don’t worry, you don’t need to wait on line, you can pay to bypass it.
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These things used to be in the back pages of The Boston Phoenix back in the day. Sadly the Phoenix is no longer with us, so we’ll have to make do.
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Coase’s Theorem applied to creepiness.
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I bid 100M USD for a date with the math babe…
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Done and done.
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Two hundred quatloos for the math babe!
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I find your proposal rather indecent
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