I like to think Canadian strippers make more money because the smallest bills we have here are $5. Unless strip club patrons can pay with loonies and toonies, but that sounds like a mood killer.
Strippers do sell their bodies, and the $650 in her hand is not a lot of money; it's just enough money to buy the cocaine to numb the pain of being destroyed inside. Sure, "empowerment".
hôr/
noun derogatory
1.a prostitute.
So unless they sell their bodies....they're not classified as a whore.