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This, if $0 + not giving face instead of $5 was a superior choice, the homeless would have chosen it, but they didnt.
by o_p 7y ago
This, if $0 + not giving face instead of $5 was a superior choice, the homeless would have chosen it, but they didnt.
- tengbretson 7y agoThat argument applies equally well to buying kidneys from homeless people for $20. I hope we agree that that's bad.
- CydeWeys 7y agoOh come on, surely you must realize that selling limited copyright to a digital likeness of your face is much different than selling a literal body part.
- tengbretson 7y agoOf course it's different. It's obviously different. That doesn't make "if it was a bad exchange they wouldn't do it" a good argument in support of either of those examples.
- pliny 7y agoIf you allowed people to sell their kidneys the market price would definitely be a lot higher and the trade in kidneys between homeless people and sick people would leave both groups a lot better off. Today you have one group dying in the street and the other dying waiting for a transplant.
- lonelappde 7y agoAnd if a few homeless people die from transplant complications, hey they volunteered! And now we can stop investing in social welfare because a steady supply of homeless bodies improves the health of the middle class! The world is not linear, it has feedback effects.
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoHomeless are that way for a reason. Logical thinking isn’t it.
- dang 7y agoPlease stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. We've had to warn you about this multiple times already. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoUnsubstantive? Most homeless have mental health issues. You can’t think logically or know if anyone is taking advantage of you when you have a mental illness. Google giving these helpless people $5 is NOT helping!