0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agoWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?message-squaremessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-squareWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoIt depends on whether you’re considering “a profession” to be something that someone does to gain goods/services/“value” from another person, or from nature.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·6 months agoSo a farmer isn’t a profession? If the hunter/gather is trading food for sex, then they are doing to gain services from another person.
minus-squarepm_me_your_lotto_num@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoSubsistence farming isn’t a profession by that definition because they aren’t producing something for someone else, just themselves.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·6 months ago they aren’t producing something for someone else They are if they’re trading it for sex.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoSo the two professions would be equally old.
It depends on whether you’re considering “a profession” to be something that someone does to gain goods/services/“value” from another person, or from nature.
So a farmer isn’t a profession?
If the hunter/gather is trading food for sex, then they are doing to gain services from another person.
Subsistence farming isn’t a profession by that definition because they aren’t producing something for someone else, just themselves.
They are if they’re trading it for sex.
So the two professions would be equally old.