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The implied end result is ghoulish. Open plasma centers in poor areas. Sooner or later they will ask for kidney donation centers. The rich literally feeding off
by blindriver 1y ago
The implied end result is ghoulish. Open plasma centers in poor areas. Sooner or later they will ask for kidney donation centers. The rich literally feeding off the poor.
This is a perfect case for UBI instead of feeding off the poor.
- vpribish 1y agoIt's only vampiric, not ghoulish.
- loeg 1y ago[flagged]
- williamdclt 1y agopretty sure everyone on the whole political spectrum uses pejorative adjectives to describe something they don't like. Would it have changed anything if they had said "horrific", "unsettling", "unethical"?
- QuercusMax 1y agoGhoulish refers to creatures who feed off the dead. Vampiric refers to creatures who feed off the living. Words have meanings even if you wish they didn't.
- loeg 1y agoI'm not disagreeing with vpribish, just providing context. In 2025, it is common for leftists use this adjective in a way that is completely divorced from its dictionary definition.
- vpribish 1y agowell said. And, I think that deleted reply really took this off track somewhere. so uh, carry on.
- stewx 1y agoIt isn't just "the rich" who need blood plasma. It's everyone. And paid plasma is the only mechanism in the world to date that yields enough plasma to meet demand.
- cogman10 1y agoPlasma donations may actually be a net positive for your health (so long as not done too frequently). It removes PFAS, heavy metals, and microplastics from your blood. All things that won't really come out without the donation.
- OutOfHere 1y agoRegular whole blood donations also remove them, just slower. Fiber also removes some of them by binding bile.
- cogman10 1y ago> Fiber also removes some of them by binding bile. I don't think this is the case, certainly not for microplastics and PFAS. I'm not sure how it'd work for heavy metals. AFAIK, fiber doesn't cross the stomach->blood barrier so it really wouldn't have the ability to bind to anything other than what's already in the digestive tract. I could see it potentially reducing the amount of plastics/metals/PFAS that end up in the blood stream but not actually reducing what's already there.
- OutOfHere 1y agoFiber doesn't need to cross the barrier. Bile does. Toxins from the body dissolve (mix) to some extent in bile, not just from the food. Fiber captures and excretes them. This is how it can lower what's already there.