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AgorismIsTheFuture 161 points ago +163 / -2

I'm a universal donor and refuse to get the poke. My blood is gonna be worth big bux soon.

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Oldguard08 71 points ago +72 / -1

Nah you can't profit from selling your body. Only the medical companies who extract it from you may profit. Those plasma donation places call your payment a "donation/gift" for your time... So I can buy hookers and blow as long as I'm donating to the dealer/hooker or giving them a gift 🤷‍♂️

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Groupthinkgroupthink 28 points ago +29 / -1

I understand the point you're making.

Some countries you can sell your blood, which in my opinion, is the only fair exchange since these Red Cross Societies make money hand over fist on-selling it to the medical industry.

It's likely in countries where it's legislated against remuneration for blood, that it's been lobbied to be that that way.

I use to donate, until I found out that they profit and being a rare O RH- myself, can only imagine what they on-sell my blood for while claiming they are a charitable organization -- not to mention the risk, however low, of cross contamination or infection from the process of giving blood.

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icockmyglock 11 points ago +11 / -0

The US is the #1 blood exporter on the world. Yet we always hear that there is a blood shortage here in the US.