This is begging to be made into a movie.
Stripper or no--it sounds like she was an effective sales representative.
As for stripping: one of my college classmates was getting her engineering degree and worked as a stripper. Her comment: "I have a 3 year old daughter and I'm getting an engineering degree--both are time consuming. I can strip two days a week for 6 hours each day and bank $2000. What other job can I get that pays better than $150 per hour?"
As long as a stripper doesn't get involved in booze and drugs, she can bank a LOT of money. The problem is that the folks running strip clubs are generally complete scum and are actively trying to get the strippers to use alcohol and drugs as it gives the owners more control.
Was her former profession somehow linked to her persuasion tactics? Otherwise why does it matter?
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200122/insys-fentanyl-s...
Not the submitted NPR link.
It was a movie.
I have to say, simply because the woman was a stripper does not preclude her from being an effective manager. Perhaps the article could have spent more time talking about dubious moral and unethical things that she did rather than her past history of removing her clothing.
Profiling like this is only necessary when your life is potentially in danger, like being a cop in a dark alley. We're a modern society, can't we treat everyone as individuals to be respected?
The parallels aren’t complete nor exhaustive but the way Gere’s character repeatedly parlays his relationship with Roberts for professional and social advantage (which is only one instance talked about in said wiki article) is one of the more prevalent themes in the film I and presumably the commenter I relied to are alluding to when connecting these dots of “art imitating life”.
This isn’t an ethical argument about how effective sex-workers are in non-sex work careers but a critique of the power dynamics between two individuals. One who merely happened to be a sex-worker.
I also don't recall anything in the movie about her managing anything, but perhaps I missed that. It was quite awhile ago. And if I recall, she encouraged Gere's character to act in a more honest manner.
Really, there seems to be very little connection here.
That’s not what’s happening here.
No, I don't think it's exactly the same thing. Very few things are (except in code).
I have some issues with how the other responder phrased it, but the concerns you present are looked at in what I felt was a pretty significant subplot in that storyline.
Is that me? I'd be agreeable to a discussion of the movie and some of the parallels I found with that particular element of the Kapoor story (at least as reported by NPR here) and try to understand your issues with my own conclusions; this particular thread may not be the best medium for it but I'm always open to a friendly session of 'movie-allegory-as-ethics film theory' being a just a middling movie enthusiast.
This is an interesting contrast with the frequently-expressed view that profiling is especially pernicious when the cops do it.
The death penalty is on the table right?
Anything less than complete dissolution of the company and capital punishments will not curb these behaviors.