{"id":91763,"date":"2025-10-23T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91763"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:40:18","slug":"vip-party-2020-carefully-hidden-intricate-economy-based-on-a-complex-brokering-of-beauty-and-status-to-create-an-atmosphere-in-which-people-will-spend-100000-on-alcohol-in-a-single-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91763","title":{"rendered":"VIP party (2020): \u201ccarefully hidden, intricate economy, based on a complex brokering of beauty and status, to create an atmosphere in which people will spend $100,000 on alcohol in a single night.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/2020\/06\/26\/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/2020\/06\/26\/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c.. I was a model before I became a sociologist\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love this kind of anthropology-culture journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The models are not exactly sex workers (\u201cI wanna have fun. I don\u2019t care about other people, like who is the client or whatever.\u201d ) and are often poor. Many of the men are only millionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/2020\/06\/26\/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party \u201c.. I was a model before I became a sociologist\u2026\u201d I love this kind of anthropology-culture journalism. The models are not exactly sex workers (\u201cI wanna have fun. I don\u2019t care about other people, like who is the client &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91764,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91763\/revisions\/91764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}