Male Model: I Do Economics in a Nightclub

My profession is a male nightclub model, number 7. The job content is to smile, listen, and accept the customer's fantasy. In their eyes, I have nothing but a skin to be sold, a commodity waiting to be sold in a flashy world. But they don't know that every showoff by a guest is a live lesson in the "Veblen Effect"; the expensive pricing on the drink list is a precise harvest under "information asymmetry"; the overt and covert fights among peers are a real performance of the "Prisoner's Dilemma". I am a commodity and an observer. This glitzy city built of desire and capital is my cage and my best classroom. Until one day, I decided not to be just a bystander. They set the game with money, and I, with economics, will be the sole bookmaker. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.