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Sugar daddy capitalism: even the world's oldest profession is being uberised

  • Written by Peter Fleming, Professor, University of Technology Sydney
Sugar daddy capitalism: even the world's oldest profession is being uberisedSugar baby websites exemplify a wider trend of casualisation in working relationships.Shutterstock

The sleazy “sugar baby” scandal involving Australian politician Andrew Broad, exposed for his reported cringy attempts to hook up with a woman almost half his age, might look like just another case of a politician caught in flagrante...

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