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wtf is wrong with USA????? why is this even a question?! fck
This isnt a bad thing you dinkledoodle
how isn't a bad thing having a price in blood? why did everything become a product there? It means that people are so selfish that only money is capable of making them do something. Blood donation should be a voluntary act, not having a price in it o.O
I'd rather get paid for my bodily material rather than give it for free.
I feel sad for you, bro, for how selfish you are. Try to get some money from doing something that could save lives.
I'd give for free if they gave it for free. They rip people off for the stuff I freely gave? No, I'll take a few bucks out of their profit, thanks.
Besides, I usually can't donate anyway but I give that shit all the time when I can. Especially when I know where it's being used (for free.)
So that's the problem with the USA. Why does the country allow companies to make profit with people's blood? That's ridiculous. This is the type of thing that happens when you allow everything to become a product, even stuff from your body. It is like insulin, that people die for not having money to buy, and it is not that expensive, but someone has to get some profit from others'chances to survive. This is selfish at it's maximum.
Look, of the people collecting my blood are turning around and selling it for a lot of moeny, shouldn't I get some of the money? That's all folks are saying. I agree people should want to do it to be a good citizen to their fellow humans, but the people getting the blood should also not be making money off of it in that case.
So if the answer to "How much is blood worth?" is "Nothing!" Then awesome! If the answer is "A lot, actually..." Then something is wrong.
Check the answers. It is, indeed, "a lot" sometimes and it happens just to allow companies to have huge profits. To do so, they allow people to have a small profit and it means let some people die if they don't have enough money to make riches richer. The USA is a country working upside down, bro.
When was the last time you donated your blood, out of the goodness of your heart?
Well, in my country there is no payment for donating blood and people do that very often.
Especially because at school we learn that it is important to donate, blood and organ, because it helps other people and maybe can save lives, not because we can take profit out of it.
Actually this isn't normal in the US. Giving regular people money for selling their blood, a form of passive income. Seems far fetched. The healthcare industry ruins people financially not help them.