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Riley Reid, Mia Khalifa and Sasha Grey all turned out fine. Riley Reid is happily married to a handsome wealthy man and they have a child and apparently a nice family life. Faye Reagan on the other hand is one of those homeless tunnel people living underneath Las Vegas. Dakota Skye died of a fentanyl overdose. Usually the fate of ex-porn actresses (like anyone else) is more tied to whether or not they were already a drug addict with poor time preference and impulse control issues, not any kind of scarlet lettering from what they used to do. Given that Bonnie Blue seems to be a skilled intelligent grifter, she will probably turn out fine.
What I don’t get is why everyone sees this as some kind of moral issue and not the massive late-Soviet Union-style failure of economic allocation that it really is.
Can you elaborate please?
There does indeed seem to be a high mortality rate among female performers due to suicide and drug overdose. Maybe it's just a case of bad vibes about the porn industry but I'm sure the statistics bear it out.
Also due to the psychological damage that comes with porning in general, I assume.
On paper the free market is supposed to route goods and services in a somewhat rational manner and create value. In practice the system seems to have gone loony and catabolic in a lot of ways. What you are seeing now is the capitalist free market equivalent of the endemic product and commodities shortages seen in the late Soviet Union. In western countries, industry is gone, the critical infrastructure that allows for the market to exist is falling apart, wages are going down. There are shortages of housing, rising food prices, rising automobile prices, massive shortages of critical armaments and military equipment, shortages of computer chips. Meanwhile bajillions of dollars are being pumped into irrational and economically wasteful Skinner boxes like narcotics, gambling, OnlyFans, and video game micro-transactions.
In 50 years Bonnie Blue’s picture is probably going to be in a history book somewhere in the chapter about how the United States economically fell apart and dissolved.
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