Belle Delphine

[Raver]

Something like 20% of the American economy is accounted for through finance, insurance, real estate, and leasing; that is, producing no useful services, but making money on money. This woman is at least offering a tangible benefit to weirdos — by almost any standard (but especially the standard of our time) she’s making a more than honest living. Also, you know, by your reasoning jewelry vendors are also grifters. Jewelry is no more objectively “useful” than whatever this woman sells.

Anyway, here in Ameristan, we call opportunists who find ways to make money off people ‘captains of industry.’ She’s more respectable than most.

What's the tangible benefit of a $2,500 per month patreon subscription though? Sure, $30 for a small jar of useless bath water won't really hurt anyone's pocket book and if people want to buy it then that's their choice. Giving her $5 a month on patron is basically the same idea as well, if you're a fan and want to support her and get more content. However, if someone is paying thousands of dollars thinking they're getting something useful when they're clearly not then it goes beyond trying to make money via capitalism at that point:

[FreelancePoliceman]

What's the tangible benefit of a $2,500 per month patreon subscription though? Sure, $30 for a small jar of useless bath water won't really hurt anyone's pocket book and if people want to buy it then that's their choice. Giving her $5 a month on patron is basically the same idea as well, if you're a fan and want to support her and get more content. However, if someone is paying thousands of dollars thinking they're getting something useful when they're clearly not then it goes beyond trying to make money via capitalism at that point:

Again, she doesn’t advertise anything beyond what people get. If people are donating to her, presumably it’s because they like her content, yes?

One may as well ask why the wealthy donate to museums when they don’t get any ‘tangible benefit’ from it. You’re missing the point entirely. Patrons of art get recognition and fuzzy feelings. Patrons of Belle Delphine get sexual pleasure.