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It’s Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich
- troydavis 9y agoIt took a couple paragraphs before I realized this wasn’t satire - or at least, the author didn’t intend it that way. By his logic, it’s also “basically just immoral” to have 2 kidneys. Quoting except s/dollar/kidney/: “Because every kidney you have is a kidney you’re not giving to somebody else, the decision to retain extra kidneys is a decision to deprive others.” Per https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donation-and-Transplantation-Stats https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donati..., “There were 5,538 living donors in 2014.” Everyone else in the US, presumably including the author, is retaining more than they need.
- mindcrime 9y agoThis "article" is garbage and doesn't belong on HN. Even rebutting this crap is a waste of time.
- vbuwivbiu 9y agoyou're missing the author's point: it would be immoral to have 1000 kidneys while others had 1 -- that's the scale of the problem we're talking about
- observation 9y agoA majority on this forum, including those people who believe their financial situation to be dire are still in the top 1% of the richest people on the planet. Should our minimum wage workers be funding anti-poverty programs? I think not, it's obviously more complicated, but the logic of such articles can usually be applied in such a way and that makes me distrust everybody who thinks in this way.
- ddingus 9y agoNot at all. However, so many rich people, big cuts in necessary programs, tax cuts, and a majority of Americans struggling economically just does not look good. I'm not even making a judgement here. I am talking about that struggling majority acting out. Gonna happen.