The main reason why people don’t want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).
But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn’t retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.
The way it’s phrased is that they added an additional payment method, not that people are turning to prostitution to eat.
Could just be that food is all the Johns have to pay with.
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Maybe they’re radical anti-capitalists doing what they can to move their economy to a barter and trade system?
The main reason why people don’t want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).
But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn’t retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.