Take The Fucking Job, or 'I Got Bills To Pay!' 2

'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.
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She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her "profile'' and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.

Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.
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The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.

When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.

"There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
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"Now that prostitution is no longer considered by the law to be immoral, there is really nothing but the goodwill of the job centres to stop them from pushing women into jobs they don't want to do."

There's only one ethic nowadays, and that's the work ethic. (For you, that is. The leisure and executive classes have other ethics that don't concern you.) Quaint, old-fashioned ethical notions — like virtue, morals, scruples, having a conscience or sense of decency — are impediments if you hope to survive in today's modern economy! Wanna eat? Wanna roof over your head? Then swallow your pride (as well as someone else's) and follow the example of your neo-liberal overlords: Want to score? Then be a whore! Everyone's a sellout anyways, so embrace it and cash in!

Just as the only sane person in an insane world is the one who is nuts, so the virgin in a land of whores or the virtuous in a land of criminals is a fool. (Just ask de Sade! or Cheney!)

What right does anyone have to refuse any paying job? Absolutely none. So shut the fuck up, bend over, and take it with a smile! Hey, you're getting paid for it, aren't you? You like it, don't you? Say you like it, I need to hear you say you like it!

And since you're getting fucked anyways you might as well cum too — consider it a perk. Besides, I likes it when you cum! If you're not enjoying yourself you've only got yourself to blame, right?


Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
   —Raoul Vaneigem

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
   —John Ruskin

An Excerpt from the Writings of Ur-Capitalism's Prophet

And thus two years went by, Roland indulging in his customary debauchery, I lingering on with the prospect of a cruel death, when one day the news went about the chateau that not only were our master's expectations satisfied, not only had he received the immense quantity of Venetian funds he had wished, but that he had even obtained a further order for another six millions in counterfeit coin for which he would be reimbursed in Italy when he arrived to claim payment; the scoundrel could not possibly have enjoyed better luck; he was going to leave with an income of two millions, not to mention his hopes of getting more; this was the new piece of evidence Providence had prepared for me. This was the latest manner in which it wished to convince me that prosperity belongs to Crime only and indigence to Virtue.
   —de Sade, Justine