If they charged $50 per, a girl could easily bring in $1,200 a day.
Possibly. However, I doubt a girl would last very long under such conditions, and they’d have to keep replacing “stock,” which of course cuts into profits.
From what I’ve read of this horrible case, the prostitution seems to have been handled on a very amateurish basis, working out of cars and taxis, etc. Not an efficient assembly line type process at all.
I don’t know what the guys in movie were charging, but I know the product shown wasn’t very appealing, and I can’t imagine they would find buyers for a price that was very high at all. BTW, there have been similar cases in this country. Cops broke one up in FL a while back. The girls were kept chained to beds and serviced migrant farm workers. Doubt the charge was very high.
I’m unfortunately not an economist, but there’s a way to calculate purchase price for an asset based on the income it is capable of producing.
IF a girl were indeed capable of consistently generating $300,000/year, then by far the most profitable trade would be enslaving them and selling them to the pimps. But I don’t know how to calculate how much each girl would go for.
In a recent thread about ISIS, members were chatting online about prices for Yezidi and Christian slave girls. They were going for $200 to $350. Does not line up with a potential earning capacity like that described in the article.
However, it’s also likely the market in the areas controlled by ISIS has been flooded, depressing prices.