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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

The whole dollars for blood thing in the US is a uniquely weird fucking thing

This country continues to find new lows day by day year by year

[-] bdonvr 29 points 1 year ago

I legitimately did it to survive

Shits fucked up

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

trading blood for a place to live, it's vampirism with an extra step

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Marx did write about spooky stuff like specters so this tracks.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

To quote Alice Caldwell-Kelly, hauntology is when you are a spooky ghost

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

'donate'

...you keep using that word: i do not think it means what you think it means...

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

From what I recall when I "donated plasma", it's a dumb loophole that works around some legality regarding "selling plasma".

The dumb loophole is you "donate plasma" for free but they award you with money.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahh, the Japanese prostitution system.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor-late-stage-capitalism/263175/

This was 2019, so I imagine it's much worse. But 2% of us exports was blood.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Can't even do this in my area. They give you a gift card lol.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Why is she smiling? Why is this graphic presented to me like it's a completely normal thing?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Delirium from blood loss maybe

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The lib I work with who's a landlord would look at this and wonder how such a problem could be solved. He would be genuinely concerned but also he's not going to support a system that ends renting property.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I could think of a way mao-shining

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

the lib, extremely compromised position is rent control, keeping on the leeches out of a respect for property instead of getting rid of them. and landlords are murderous about rent controls

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

*To pay...

Now I wonder if AI was used.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I used to do this every chance I got in college, the feeling was terrible and it made you so cold as they pumped your blood back in after it had been filtered. Inhumane that people have to do this to survive.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, it comes back cold? That sounds awesome. I need one of these in a backpack. Can I use a cpu water cooler and an IV?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

What it's only rent how much could it cost? how-much-could-it-cost

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ALL. OF. YOUR. BLOOD.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Fellas are people who need plasma products vampires? Is that all the vampires need? Are vampires that drink whole blood more or less bougie?

Ok on a more serious note, I've heard the profit margin made between the plasma donated and the pittance given is insane , is it true, if anyone happens to know, that the plasma center makes around $1800 per 880 ML of plasma?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Different blood products have different shelf lives, plasma's a relatively long lasting one.

Edit: this is important for the US's blood industry because a lot of that is then sold off to other countries.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is Rimworld shit

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I donated blood a few times a year for a while until they asked me to do a plasma donation, then started calling me every week until I told them to take me off the list.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Me too it's good in a pinch but it's still super dystopian to have to do it to just barely survive still

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I know they chose this pic to have a "relatable, cool" girl to get all gen z'ers to vibe with it, but I can't help but think how that sick sleeve probably cost like $2000.

Like I'm not putting it down, it is a cool fucking sleeve, but I don't know if it fits with the "I need to sell bodily fluids to pay my rent" message

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wondered if it was AI. You make a great point and the "Pay rent" should be "To pay rent" and the circular text and the unnecessary diagonal theme. Everything feels like a hodgepodge that was copy-and-pasted together.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh, I honestly didn't think of that, but the person shows zero signs of being AI generated in my opinion. But the ad is 100% surgically cut out to appeal to 20-somethings who need extra cash

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