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Originally Posted by Rochard
I disagree. I have a friend of mine out of work for the past six months. He can't spend $20 to jerk off. He can't afford $20 to fill up his tank with gas. No way he's plunking down his credit card to view a porn site. He's about to loose house and has zero cash; He's worried about where he's going to be living next month, not entertaining himself.
You also compared Wendys to my local movies. You can't really compare the two. We don't have a local movie theatre in Lincoln, or even Rocklin for that matter. We have to travel all the way to Roseville to see a movie, all of about twenty minutes. In the process, we'll pass three different Wendy's - including the closed one in Lincoln, there is one in Rocklin and more than one in Roseville. The Wendy's served a limited amount of people in Lincoln only, while the movie theatre serves the populations of Roseville, Lincoln, Rocklin, North Highlands, and even Granite Bay. In other words, the movie theatre has a much large customer base.
I'm also willing to bet that our local movie theatre has seen a huge decline in ticket sales, as well as a drop in their snack bar sales.
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My comparison to your Wendies was sarcasm. You were the one doing the comparison by claiming because your Wendies shut down, porn spending is also down.
You're taking a town that boomed by building houses for people who realistically couldnt afford them in the first place. Now they're gone so of course the local businesses will also close up shop. But those people move on and live with their parents, friends, rent an apt etc. They are still spending a few bucks a month to watch movies from RedBox. Hollywood is on pace to have their best earnings year ever. Hell, I have to wait 3 weeks to get my new iphone, Apple cant keep up with demand. People will spend money on entertainment, always have. If you think people dont spend $ on sex anymore, come down to Vegas and visit the Rhino at 5am on a Tuesday. It's balls to the wall.
You're looking at extreme examples of people having to beg for $ to get gas. For everyone of those examples I can give you 5 more of people viewing movies from NetFlix, watching Inception, hitting the strip clubs, waiting in line at Redbox, going to a baseball game.