Submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to economics@lemmy.world
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
I think I read that donating your plasma was a good way to eliminate microplastics from your system. So while that doesn’t improve the overall dystopian-ism of this, it’s a bit of a silver lining? I guess?
“First world country”
Well, yeah. Textbooks and weed ain’t free. Plus they give you some food afterwards to get past the crash. All you have to do is let a machine extract some of your essence to be used for medical testing. You’ll barely miss it.
And be stabbed by the worst phlebotomist ever. I’m still scarred from selling plasma shortly after college. Still glad I did, but it has made my non dominant elbow non viable for blood draws and ivs
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you’re selling plasma to make ends meet you aren’t middle class, you’re poor skilled labor
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 week ago
You’re working class, because the middle class is a fiction.