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Hot Girls Created An Isolated Economic Loop (With David Lorentzon)
Description
In this episode of Based Camp, Simone and Malcolm Collins sit down with researcher David Lorentzon to explore the “hot girl service economy”—an insular, self-reinforcing ecosystem concentrated in places like Bali, Phuket, Dubai, and Miami.
Attractive women are drawn in by modeling gigs, OnlyFans, free travel, and aspirational Instagram lifestyles, then sustain each other through yoga studios, Pilates, hair, makeup, and other services run by other women in the same scene. The result is a lifestyle that rewards staying single, staying hot, and never putting down roots—making family formation and community nearly impossible.
David explains how this economy grew out of broader gender segregation in jobs and geography, why natalist policies barely touch it, and why a combination of economic pressure, travel restrictions, and AI-generated models may soon force many of these women back home. The conversation also covers Mormon influencer exceptions, the “friendship tax,” passport-bro incompatibilities, and whether social shaming or structural change is the more realistic response.
Show Notes
We didn’t personally bring show notes to this episode, but David Lorentzon provided some additional notes after we recorded; adding them here!
Yes, China does a lot to reduce global demand, but it’s still not enough. The world has done various measures to reduce the oil supply shock from a 20%- down to a 10%- reduction, which is still large enough to cause a recession bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.
Even if you were to fix the oil supply completely, the other essential exports from the GCC are enough to cause a world recession. The world gets 30% of its synthesized fertilizers transported through the Hormuz Strait, with the worlds farmers having 30% less to use, it will lead to 20-30% less food grown, causing a global famine and high food prices. This is why I talk about “food migrants” and that international travel will have to be shut down to prevent people from leaving famine-striken Middle Income Countries across Asia and Africa.
My mentor Economics Professor Steve Keen predicts that a 100 million people may perish as a result of the famine in the coming 12 months. The big majority of them are mostly living in Africa and Asia.
Besides that, the world gets much of its Helium from the GCC. There’s no reserves or replacement for that. You cannot manufacture the chips used in all technology without helium. So if you have 30% less helium available, it results in 30% fewer digital products made globally.
Lastly, the Sulphuric Acid, a key import required in making copper products, such as electrical wiring. Less sulphuric acid means less copper, which means less cables, less data centers and other tech stuff. There are no replacement or reserves on this.
So all of this means that a global recession of at least 10%-, travel restrictions, famine, pause on building more data centers, and debt deflation is all guaranteed at this point. The crisis will truly begin in the autumn.
All of that will practically put an end to the Hot Girl Service Economy. If people have less disposable income, then that means less money on non-essential services, which the entire Hot Girl Service Economy is.
This will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for blu e collar men to ‘wife up’ some of the hottest women out there, because they will have lost their entire ecosystem sustaining their lavish lifestyles.
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Another key detail I forgot to mention regarding the Hot Girl Service Economy is that in many of the modeling contracts they include huge fines if the