The real dystopian thing for me is that you guys get paid to donate blood. That is just insane.
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andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah - that’s what I found dystopian about it. That someone would be desperate enough to come back the next day to try again.
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Like, considering what US hospitals charge, plasma donors damn well should be paid. It’s a travesty that whole blood donors aren’t paid a penny. There should be a law that whatever a hospital charges for a blood transfusion, half of whatever they bill has to get paid to the donor. I’m fine with donation being an act of charity if the blood was going to be used for a charitable cause. But what we have now is that whole blood donors perform a charitable act…and then donate their blood to a greedy hospital that will charge patients thousands for the blood the donor was never paid for.
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just plasma. Blood can only be donated, not sold.
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We don’t get paid for any bodily fluids.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
yeah this is as dystopian as young me could’ve imagined actually. i know this because young me wrote a fantasy setting where blood (and specifically high glucose contained blood) was consumed as a magic reagent and poor people worked full time selling blood
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh it’s more dystopian than that. You can’t make rent off it. Just groceries or liquor really
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was reading it like the big bad government was preventing us from draining ourselves however we please for personal profit, and that’s a bad thing. I am not feeling well and my reading comprehension is clearly lacking.