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If you're getting paid, it's not a donation

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You can't convince me we aren't on some sort of prison planet experiment. The most common theme throughout all of human history is suffering. It doesn't matter where, when, or why, there will always be some degenerate ghouls fucking people over. In this case, the demons that set up the system so that the most vulnerable literally need to give their blood to pay rent. It's fucking disgusting.

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So... we are in the Bad Place?

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You are correct.

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Prove you deserve better; death or being 50% less miserable.

Well, death either way, but hopefully not yours.

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Yo how much does this pay tho?

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Location dependent. Here in he midwest you can make around 400 something a month doing this 2 times a week.

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- 2 times a week?! Over here you aren't allowed to donate plasma more than once every month (and you obviously don't get paid for it)
  
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- Here in France you can make 0€ because the human body cannot be considered a commodity you can trade
  
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Don't do it, you can't get rid of the huge needle scars

EDIT: I tried to upload a pic of the scar on my arm, but I keep getting an error 🙄

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- Joke's on you, they'll just get lost in my track marks
  
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- Definitely this. Just get evicted instead - that way you can still wear short sleeves.
  
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- I mean you totally should do it, a number of people will die without access to the medication it makes.
  
  It sucks that they're in so short supply they have to offer so much money and that people are so poor they need it to survive.
  
  But my little needle scars don't harm me any.
  
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- I’m not the only one! Yeah it’s a rough scar from a rough time in my life.
  
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In Washington I was making like $200/mo

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About 120 a week in SE US.

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Without approving of the American dystopia of paying for plasma donations, can I still say thank you to those that "donate" their plasma so that important medications can be made?

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Not if its owned by a corporations. They're slaves; they had no choice. Imagine if George Washington thanked the slaves he took his teeth from.

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I have received a somewhat unusual vaccination and my antibodies were valuable to a drug company for a while. They were paying 120$ for plasma for a while and you could go 2x a week. The plasma center, like most, wasn’t in the best neighborhood and the cash was doled out be an ATM like machine when you were finished. Well 120 took a hell of a lot more “kachunks” that 15 did and by the time you got your cash there was a whole room full of pissed off desperate folks staring at you. Not that fun.

I have had to sell plasma to make ends meet in my life and I know what those people must have been feeling watching some kid in nice clothes get paid 10x what they were for the same unpleasant procedure. Fucking rough. I used the money to buy a house. They would be lucky to get a groceries out of the deal

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What kind of house did you buy with an extra 240$ a week?

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- I mean I was able to save almost 15k during that year which was a suitable down payment on a 100k ish house. which wasn’t hard to find in the city I lived in circa 2005. It wasn’t anything to crow about but it beat renting.
  
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What was the vaccination for?

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Donate plasma. Impact lives. Get paid.

Haulin‘ ass. Gettin‘ paid.

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/c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Why? This is why:
A tweet of ironmouse asking for plasma donations for her Christmas present. underneath is "Do it for her" meme edited with her faces

I wish I could but I can't.

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I used to sell plasma to pay for gas for polyamory. Also for job interviews.

Anyways that’s why I’ve got a track mark on one arm despite being allergic to opiates

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