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I don’t see how that solves the potential problem. You could still end up in the same place of “balancing out” where the extra money from your kidney becomes so
by keybored 3y ago
I don’t see how that solves the potential problem. You could still end up in the same place of “balancing out” where the extra money from your kidney becomes something you need i.e. a transfer from poor to rich people.
- intuitionist 3y agoWell, the people receiving the kidneys won’t be rich on average, although it’s possible they’ll be richer on average than the compensated donors. There’s a big shortfall of available kidneys but the number is pretty tiny compared to the number of people living paycheck-to-paycheck in America. So it seems unlikely to me that in the future everyone needs to donate a kidney just to stay in the same place—that’d be a couple orders of magnitude more kidneys than we need.
- keybored 3y agoFair point that there isn’t a high enough demand to cause a lot of poor people to be monokidneys.