That’s the thing about addicts. They’re still people. Some get into a bad situation and know better than to fuck up the few good opportunities they’ll get. Many will fuck themselves over for easy and quick gains. The latter group is why my wife would kill me if I hired an addict prostitute to clean our home.
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shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days agoYou joke, but the crackhead hooker next door to me in Chicago would clean my place, top to bottom, for a 20 spot. Wouldn’t dare steal anything because I was good money for a regular rock.
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Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had smack and crack habits off and on for almost twenty years. Never stole anything (aside from occasionally shoplifted food). I always worked and paid for my shit. However there are an awful lot of people out there who use their habits to justify shitty behaviour, so yeah, I’d err on the side of caution.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
You let someone clean your whole place for that shitty pay? What are you? A crack junkie too? Have some dignity and pay a human in a shitty situation a decent compensation. Jeez. Our cleaning-lady makes that in an hour after taxes and I even feel like I cheat her.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
$20 was worth more 20 years ago, and I had a 1-room apartment. She was making ~$10/hr. Fair pay for cleaning work in 2003, with my supplies.
tl:dr; Get off your fucking high horse.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
In that case disregard my comment. “Top to bottom” made it sound like you made her clean a whole fucking house.
BTW, not abusing power over people isn’t high-horse in my book. Just basic human decency.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I stand with you, I’m glad you have the money to pay her well. Would you suggest that fella should clean his apartment himself and then the woman next door is also not making those 20 bucks?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
No. But maybe not abuse someone in such dire need for a Lil cash and pay fair. Junkie or not. Anyhow. My comment was invalid anyway and I took it back.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I know what you mean, you are right, bit that guy is probably paying max he can and they found an arrangement. She’s also probably not 1000% dependent on the money so she could also refuse and take a different gig or negotiate.
As I said, I’m totally with you, the work should get paid what it’s worth and people should not be cheap about it, I’m just saying consider taking in more contextual information before you call out those enslaving junky exploiting fellas.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’ve known a few like that. Why I joke about it. I knew a guy, if he could have kept his shit together, he coulda had his own damn shop. Dude could fix about anything mechanical, get it done quicker than some of the shops around the place.
Saw plenty of 'em working in construction, too. Keep it together long enough to make some decent cash, disappear for awhile, come back when they needed more. You got used to rotating faces, got to know which ones would try to screw you over. Too many times you’d see one come up alone and find out the buddies they had didn’t make it through the last.