Well, 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

Well, 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.