Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

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• purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the lower class:

  Picture of an old skeleton sitting on a chair underwater

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you have to sell plasma, you aren’t middle class anymore. This is probably because they’ve been gutting the middle class in favor of the rich for decades.

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• skhayfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My problem is with private healthcare that bills thousands for a bag of plasma that have been donated

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That headline implies that selling plasma to get by is acceptable so long as your working class or poor.

  OR

  Holy shit poverty is happening to worthy people.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a place near me paying $800 for new donaters. I’m 100% going to go.

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I spent about 1 year selling plasma; I already had a full time job, and other gig work on the side. It fucking sucked. You’d wait an hour to have a nurse take your vitals to determine if you were healthy enough to donate. Then you’d wait an hour just to get hooked up to a machine. For me, once I was hooked up, it took 50 minutes to fill the bottle.

  Those bottles of Plasma retailed for over $1000. I got paid $60 a bottle. I could donate twice a week. Every moment of it sucked and it left scars in my arms.

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