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Anyone consistently taking home 30k over a weekend should feel ZERO need to advertise that fact, trebly so if they're in a dubiously legal occupation. They should not want to invite competition, especially from potentially more attractive ladies.
Likewise, such a person would probably not want the attention this could bring to her clients, both for competitive reasons and for their own confidentiality. Its more accepted to do this kind of disclosure either anonymously or as a post-retirement memoir, no?
Conclusion: maybe ONE guy paid her 30k, ONCE, and maybe for some particularly lurid scenario or there were some other expenses involved or whatever. She's using that to set her price negotiations with any future Johns aggressively in her favor.
I'm skeptical of taking MUCH from this about the larger escort scene in SF, although I'm willing to believe, given the gender ratios (to say nothing of sexualities) I've heard predominate out there that any cishet guy with decent Testosterone levels and hundreds of thousands/millions of tech dollars in his pocket would try to find an outlet.
This article is likely an ad. Not even heavily disguised I'd say.
There's a valid read on this from the AI/Economic Anxiety perspective though, yes. Tech bros are an ascendant class purely on the backs of very new wealth and the appearance that they'll 'own' the future (maybe not literally) on current trajectories, so their status is likely to keep on rising if they don't get unceremoniously displaced by their own product.
And so the two broad sectors of Western economies that are 'thriving' are anything that directly caters to wealthy boomers (or not-so-wealthy, given how much the government spends on them too), or anything that is closely related to AI development. (Finance is doing fine too, but that's not so interesting).
The up-and-coming generation would not be wrong to notice they can trade in significant amounts of dignity and personal autonomy to siphon some of the wealth those particular beneficiaries without having to actually break through into such classes. But 10-15 years of doing so just for a shot at getting enough financial independence to never have to degrade yourself again is kind of bleak to contemplate from this side of it.
If at least some of that is declared income (and if they're smart, they won't mess with the IRS), then they have to explain how it was earned. "I'm a hooker" clearly won't do, so they'll have to claim it is for consultancy services or the likes, hence having a day job or former day job to explain where all this extra money is coming from would be smart, and they'd have to be some level of intelligent to pull that off.
The IRS allows you to declare "other income" without giving its source. The catch is you can't deduct expenses against it.
Would they not be interested if you declare "no job, no income from employment, but I'm getting all this money from somewhere else"? It strikes me that is the kind of "hmm, is there maybe criminal activity going on here?" that would attract some notice.
By law the IRS is not allowed to refer you to other law enforcement agencies based on your tax return. I'm sure they do anyway at least sometimes, though, but going after whores probably isn't worth it to them.
I was curious, because recent tightening-up of regulations has meant more annoying paperwork around work bank accounts where we have to solemnly swear (and sign this form here, here, and here) that we are not, in fact, money-laundering or doing other naughty no-no things. So I wondered if "no visible means of support but thousands going into my bank account" would not attract the same kind of attention.
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