Money is empowering. Being debt-free is empowering. Having a college education from Duke is empowering. Ideally, she'll be three for three.

At the cost of notoriety. Which she's bitching about. Those three examples that you're ignoring - apparently because there's three of them - do not carry this penalty.

And I say good for her for turning something she enjoys into a money-making activity, which to me is literally the definition of fiscal intelligence.

She's not enjoying it. The Universe found out who she was and got up in her grille about it. Now she's knee-deep in a rhetorical war in which she's accusing the world of being mean and paternalistic for disapproving of her choices.

I don't know what else to say.

Clearly.

Why's it sad?

Because a reasonably intelligent girl thinks that somehow it's unreasonable to suffer stigma for participating in a profession based on stigma.

The stigma exists, so she can a) bow to it and leave porn

"Trying to get dirty pictures off the Internet is like trying to get pee out of a swimming pool." - NewsRadio

Here's some pictures of Dr. Laura nude.

You think the lady in the link was thinking about the lady behind the microphone?

b) make quite a bit of money.

Right, 'cuz porn is a growth industry.

EDIT: let's see if hubski falls for my repetition-as-a-rhetorical-device.

Probably not, as I used repetition to cite three examples and parallel structure to refine their impact. You, on the other hand, pretended I didn't make an argument at all.