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“When I’m at the strip club, I’m a hustler (điếm),” says Palmar, a stripper (vũ nữ khỏa thân) working in a Florida beach town. “I’m good at getting people to spend money on me.”

Strippers are struggling (vật lộn, vất vả) right now, several women working in the industry told Glamour. It’s a good thing Palmar knows how to hustle (chài kéo), because lately the clubs have been more like meditation studios than ragers (kẻ tiệc tùng). One Friday night in May, she clocks in at 7 p.m., pays the house fee, and puts on a partially sheer black lace one-piece with a neckline (đường viền cổ áo) that plunges to her pubic bone (xương mu). For the next four hours she dances and spends time with customers. Then she changes back into a T-shirt, tips the DJ and security, and leaves. She walks away with $260. Palmar has been working in clubs for more than seven years. A good night for her used to be closer to $1,000, she says. Now she’s getting used to bad nights.

“People were making more money [during the height of] COVID—stimulus money (tiền cứu trợ kích cầu), unemployment (thất nghiệp), whatever—and now they’re making less, and also rent is higher and gas prices are higher,” she says. “People are suddenly realizing they don’t have money.”

...“The strip club is sadly a leading indicator and I can promise y’all we r in a recession lmao,” she tweeted. “Every single stripper I know is a better trend forecaster than any finance bro or marketing exec,” she added a week later. By then, her original tweet had blown up—it had six figures’ worth of likes; her message was parroted all over TikTok and picked up by major outlets.

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