But it's not really a deal if you don't get paid. Up until today, it was illegal to seal the deal (i.e., pay your donor). Now that people actually have a ratio

But it's not really a deal if you don't get paid. Up until today, it was illegal to seal the deal (i.e., pay your donor). Now that people actually have a rational financial reason to trade a little bit of their own lives to strangers (needlesticks aren't painless, and donors need to sit for hours to actually donate the cells), they'll go through with it a lot more. The donors win, and the recipients win. That's a great thing!