Supply and Demand, Market Economics

I know the media would have us all believe that the end of the world is pretty damn nigh, what with the credit crunch and now swine flu. Although that said swine flu (apart from of course the people who have it) did strike me as quite a positive media spin compared to Gordon Brown on Youtube looking like a fool.

But what really confuses me, and please feel free if you have the answer to pop it on a postcard, is why when the price of bread or milk is only ever going one way, despite all this talk of credit crunches. Then why is it that the price that escorts are charging is going down? And don't try to tell me that demand is down... oh no... come on we all know that blokes will give up bread or milk before they give up sex, and tescos isn't decrying a dairy lake in cheshunt yet - or did you, like me, miss that story?

So... please tell me why the guys advertising their "wants" are dropping their prices faster than a whore's knickers? And expecting the moon on a stick for the princely sum of..wait for it.... £30 an hour in some cases and I am not talking about meeting someone just off the train in King's Cross here. I have a theory, but sadly it makes me sound like a Daily Mail reader...which I am most definitely not..that paper I wouldn't even wrap my chips in for fear of the poisonous ink polluting my potato-based treats. But having spent a fair old while looking at the pages where you can find such things out, it would seem that yes they are coming here and taking our jobs lol. And although market forces should dictate that if the punters were not offering enough to get the goods, they'd have to up their offer....with this influx the median price in fact dips. If only there were a union of sorts or even a fricking cartel we the workers could set the prices and make them fair, rather than this total farce where the sisterhood are all undercutting each other and would be far better off just saying mate you are having a giraffe if you think I'm going to do that for anything less than reasonable money. And I wouldn't have to rant about it.