{"id":584,"date":"2010-02-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=584"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:00:00","slug":"are-you-a-business-prostitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/are-you-a-business-prostitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Business Prostitute?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Amsterdam recently it occurred to me a prostitute isn’t just someone who sells sex, but some anyone who exchanges what is sacred for what is not. I define a “business prostitute” as anyone devoting their working life to an activity without a higher cause beyond profit. <\/b><\/div>\n
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I claim that our lives are sacred (in the sense of important, not necessarily any religious sense) and that just using it to make money is a waste of the precious life we have. I am not saying that making money or capitalism is bad, only that for me this is how I run a business<\/a>, not why I run a business. Incidentally if you are a hedonist and all you want from life is pleasure, research <\/a>shows that making money beyond the minimum to live is a dumb strategy too. <\/div>\n
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Often I hear people say “but I have to do this work to live, blah, blah, blah…”I have children to feed…blah, blah, blah” Bullshit, we are not serfs – people that say this are rarely at subsistence levels of survival, rather they are prioritizing consumerism. A down and out street prostitute who sell his or her wares to live I can understand, but what can those who are not starving buy that is more important than their lives? <\/div>\n
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Your children will thank you more for doing something of worth than for a big house and car (which if you do something you really love well you’ll probably be able to afford anyway- business prostitution doesn’t even make sense economically – people are much more likely to get rich doing something they love than something they don’t).<\/div>\n
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My message is this – If you are a business prostitute take personal responsibility and do something with your time that really matters to you. <\/b>You may well be able to do that within a mainstream organisation without dropping out and joining a commune. It is a travesty to exchange what matters for what doesn’t. Don’t be a whore, get a life.<\/div>\n
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