Ghoul rag tries to hide its ghoulishness with a friendly illustration.

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Headline: The government is getting in the way of your path to personal fortune by making it illegal to sell your children for some quick cash

Rich people need poor people, for their kidneys.

"If the rich could hire other people to die for them - the poor could make a wonderful living." - Yiddish proverb

Let poor people guillotine billionaires. It will save lives.

A Modest Proposal in Defense of Vampires

wot if we fed the poor to vampires?

Reminder that A Modest Proposal was a work of satire/ sarcasm suggesting that the british simply eat starving irish people as a method of convenient nutrition that enforced social values
- Huh, I didn't know that. When people miss it's satire, do you know if that's why they call Swift a misanthrope?

Corporate Memphis art style is demonic. When I see art like this I don’t think “friendly” I think “antichrist”

The "art" embodiment of the moment an honest sneer morphs into a fake smile. So powerfully does it radiate saccharine contempt, thick and black like candy coated tar, that to look at it for more than a few seconds is to hear the nightmare chittering of a trillion hateful insects presenting their best human face. Corporate Memphis is the closest thing the real world has to 40K's chaos sigils, in that putting any up on a wall drives people to insanity and is an invitation to ruinous powers.

But others are more thoughtful and prudent. One approach is to make the federal government the sole purchaser of kidneys. Donor and recipient would never meet. Compensation would be fixed, haggling impossible. After the kidney is acquired, the transplant process would unfold in the typical manner.

Slightly less bad i guess but under capitalism it would essentially result in the poor selling their kidneys for what? $50k? maybe in a much more equal society i can see some state benefits to incentivize people but definitely not under the current system.

there is already a blood donation market in the U.S. and its as 'problematic' as you would expect

"After the kidney is acquired" might be the coldest shit I've ever read outside of outright fighting words or hate speech Holy shit lol
Imagine living in a world where Canadian MAID is a thing and you can look at it and your takeaway is "yeah but what if they were allowed to do more than just euthanize themselves?"
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SAVE WHOSE LIVES

“Let people sell their children. It will save lives.”

Murray Rothbard: "This but unironically."

Should we uplift people, or let them debase themselves in desperation?

Is that a trick question?

From ghoul rag straight to

sell kidney. afford kidney shaped pool. American dream.

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or we could make make organ donation opt-out instead of opt in you dumb fuck

That would create perverse incentives, unlike creating an open organ market and compelling poor people to sell parts of themselves to survive
According to the ModifyNOTA website, fewer than 1% of registered organ donors die in such a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested. Also, a living-donor kidney lasts twice as long on average as a deceased-donor kidney.
Yes it would definitely help to make organ donation opt-out, and we should totally do that, but they're saying this still wouldn't be enough.
- your first sentence has nothing to do with what i said because those people already registered. the stat you want is people who are not donors dying in a way that we could've used their organs but didn't.

so is this really because elon and other billionaires are leading the trend in ketamine abuse so the rich need our organs to replace their deteriorating kidneys and bladders?

I have no doubt that billionaires will find kidneys one way or another if they need them.
This proposal claims to be designed to disproportionately benefit the lower class.

Let rabid racoons eat Dylan Walsh's face. It will save braincells.

Remove vehicle safety regulations. It’ll increase donors and increase profits.

Change vehicle safety to guarantee head trauma that leads to brain death, while protecting internal organs
- Get in truck. The cattle gun from No Country shoots out from the head rest. New driver gets in.
so this is why the Cybertruck is road-legal

No ladder in that pool

Sims-ass pool

Yes let us begin the financialization of organs. I wanna meet the grave robber from Repo.

What happened to article heads pretending to care about futurist innovation? I vaguely remember some investment firm bragging about funding the creation of artificially grown organs. That was back during the venture capital, bullshit start up era though, so it was probably all lies, but still! What the fuck do these medical companies do all day besides get glowing write-ups in legacy papers?

I wish this person a very nice ice bath.

Here's an excellent blog post by a kidney donor about the great difficulty involved in donating. There are a lot of barriers making it unnecessarily hard to donate.

Healthcare, please

So Iran is the only country in the world that legalized the sale of kidneys, and as a result, they don't have any wait lists for kidneys. Regardless of how you feel about it, it's an interesting case study (from an anti-imperialist nation to boot) about the effectiveness of the system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_trade_in_Iran

"Ghoulish" is a little knee-jerk, don't you think?

The proposed method to incentivize kidney donations seems well thought-out and non-coercive. It is structured in a way that makes it impossible or at least very difficult to sell a kidney as a way to "get rich quick" (get out of debt quick). Because it's awarded as tax credits, impoverished people would have little incentive to sell.

Meanwhile, the kidneys will go disproportionately to the poor and to the disadvantaged, since rich and advantaged people apparently have much less trouble finding volunteer donors.

There is a huge need for kidneys. Kidney failure causes great suffering. Having a second kidney isn't very useful. Why not cautiously incentivize donation?

Edit: I think people aren't realizing these are tax credits. Impoverished people who can't afford necessities won't be able to get any money from this.

Edit (2): Okay so apparently these are refundable tax credits, which rather skews things. But there are apparently a number of other safeguards the proposal would put in place to prevent ghoulish kidney harvesting. I think this proposal should really be taken seriously and considered carefully rather than dismissing it outright as "ghoulish" because it has the potential to save a lot of lives, especially low-income and disadvantaged lives.

Having the poors sell their organs is ghoulish, yes. No need to outsmart yourself.
- This is aggravating. It's a carefully considered plan designed to avoid the ghoulish scenario of "poor people selling their kidneys," evidently designed by someone smarter than either of us.
There is a huge need for kidneys.
Shove tons of salt and sugar into every available fast food venue
"Damn, son, there sure are a lot of failed kidneys happening all of a sudden. Maybe we should legalize cannibalism to alleviate the problem?"
- Improving the American diet is another thing that would help this problem a lot, but I doubt it would be sufficient.
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SELL THEIR ORGANS JUST TO AFFORD TO BE ABLE TO LIVE.
- It's tax credits. People who can't afford basic housing won't be able to get a penny from this.
Ghoulish" is a little knee-jerk, don't you think?
Nah, this is every bit as ghoulish as those "want to buy textbooks? Sell your blood!" ads that make the rounds here
The proposed method to incentivize kidney donations seems well thought-out and non-coercive... Having a second kidney isn't very useful.
Thank you. I am stealing such things for future neoliberal (etc) parodies. Yeesh.
Ninja edit 1: In fact - I'm going to bookmark you because you are clearly a goldmine for parody!
Ninja edit 2: I scrolled down your profile - highly disturbing but amazing content.
- I'm... glad to be of service?
If you are so concerned about the availability of organs, how about instead of exploiting the desperation and suffering of still living people to rip their kidneys out, we institute universal deceased organ donation first?
- As pointed out in the article, that would definitely help but wouldn't be sufficient.
  Again, the proposed system would be non-exploitative. It would not incentivize the poor and desperate to donate.
New here huh?
- Yes. I'm definitely interested in learning more about leftism. I would identify as 50% liberal, 45% leftist, maybe 5% crazy libertarian.
- Okay, I do agree with what you're saying, at least as far as "we live in a broken society" and capitalism is bad. But why should the response to any idea short of tearing down the system be negative? If there's a way to help improve things... shouldn't we go for it? It sucks that society sucks but that's not an excuse to ignore potentially helpful ideas.