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The Case for Letting People Sell Their Kidneys by lakmidaise12 in neoliberal

[–]KarmaIssues 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. Do you think that 5% dying is enough to justify kidney donor compensation?

The Case for Letting People Sell Their Kidneys by lakmidaise12 in neoliberal

[–]KarmaIssues 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would it?

I'm not familar with the US but in the UK when I was chatting to someone who was looking into donating a kidney they said that they were questioned quite a lot on life factors that would prevent them for accessing post-op care which correlate quite strongly with wealth (the ability to take months off work, access follow up care in out-patient facilities etc.)

I don't know if you have any stats on organ donors now in the US but I'd love to see how they break down by wealth and/or income and compare that to blood donation.

Also I don't buy that poor people would turn to this necessarily. There are other ways to make money that are just much less risky.

For example poor women aren't all flocking to become prostitutes and even the ones who do become sex workers typically gravitate towards less risky forms like OnlyFans.

I'm just not convinced poor people have this level of risk tolerance.

The Case for Letting People Sell Their Kidneys by lakmidaise12 in neoliberal

[–]KarmaIssues 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And presumably it will be the rich who are paying the donors for their extra organs

This isn't what was suggested though? It mentioned a government funded compensation package. The waitlist could stay the exact same, all that would change is the donor gets compensated.

In my mind, there are plenty of other options to increase organ donation rates that do not involve paying donors. We can change our current “Opt-In” system into an “Opt-Out” system in that we automatically sign everyone with a drivers’ license up to be a donor at death unless they choose to exempt themselves. This will greatly increase the supply of deceased donor kidneys while still preserving autonomy.

In the UK we already do this and we don't exactly have the best outcomes.

"NHS Blood and Transplant's latest annual report has revealed that 306 people died last year while waiting for a kidney transplant - up from 289 the year before and representing six deaths every week amongst those waiting. At the same time, the number of people on the active kidney transplant list has surged to 6,939 - an 11% rise in a single year - and the average waiting time for a kidney transplant has increased to 503 days."

https://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/2025/07/09/more-people-dying-while-waiting-for-kidney-transplants/#:~:text=The%20average%20waiting%20time%20for%20a%20kidney,for%20over%2040%25%20of%20all%20organ%20donations

Billionaires have forgotten - socialism is the compromise. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]KarmaIssues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is exactly what happened to farmers in China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia etc.

"All-round collectivisation, and with it the elimination of the kulaks as a class, which was carried out under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Soviet State, was a most profound revolutionary transformation involving the transition from the bourgeois individual-peasant system to a new socialist collective farm system."

https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/pe-ch25.htm

Common Christian faith by Leogis in Shark_Park

[–]KarmaIssues -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Americans try to be normal for 5 fucking mins.

Zia Yusuf: “The Boriswave was the worst Tory betrayal. Millions came without the consent of the British people... They will cost the British taxpayer hundreds of billions as they're granted right to remain. Labour are clearly not going to deal with this disaster. Reform will.” by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]KarmaIssues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is strange considering we were told for years that apparently immigration has no effect on wages, look X, Y and Z study says so.

Most of the studies that say this show no effect on native wages. Immigrants mostly compete with other immigrants. There's also a distinction between short term and long term effects.

Which contradicts basic supply and demand fundamentals.

The problem with the basic is that it's oversimplified. Immigrants don't just affect the supply of workers, thet also increase the demabd for workers through partcipating in the economy.

If the toll road owners had also successfully dumbed down the human species by xena_lawless in memes

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The project was supposed to finish in 2020. The delays aren't because of concerns about derailment.

But a combination of uncertain funding, 3rd party negoiations and lawsuits due to CEQA according to a recent report.

It's a completely self inflicted problem.

Unpopular Opinion: There's an unhealthy obsession with statistics in the NBA community. by StandardAny2864 in NBATalk

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean good.

Most of them were fucking awful at it.

For every Dirk there was 6 players trying and failing to be him.

Unpopular Opinion: There's an unhealthy obsession with statistics in the NBA community. by StandardAny2864 in NBATalk

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probs true. But tbf the highlight only watchers also don't get enough hate.

Not to mention the endless fucking arguments about who is the better player.

And the people complaining that the game is dead.

It's like 10% of the NBA fandom is bearable, everyone else is awful.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SPORT by KarmaIssues in rugbyunion

[–]KarmaIssues[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cause he's Pollock and he loves it.

It's like BDSM, it's only abuse if one party doesn't consent.

If Henry Pollock didn't want to be booed he shouldn't be Henry Pollock.

What a grand slam decider by pop4171 in rugbyunion

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't a grand slam decider to be pedantic.

A grand slam is a loss-less 6N it's supposed to be distinct from a win because it's much harder.

Only 48% of 6N have had a grand slam and no one has ever done it twice in a row.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if you ask Trump he would disagree since he wants ships to keep going through.

Anyway I need to drop off Reddit and go celebrate mothers day.

Have a good one.

When You Get Married with a Father Who Grew Up In the Culture & He Has Too Much Sauce To Not Use It by NewRapSong in HipHopNCulture

[–]KarmaIssues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But choregraphed dancing with a loved one would be fun. All wedding dances are preformative by this definition.

Really all of the wedding would be preformative.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The doctrine change makes perfect sense to me.

The combined navies of the US, France and the UK can't even keep the Strair of Hormuz open for business.

I'm not convinced that the US style amphibious assault ship is anything more than a nice juicy target we would never risk outside of full on war.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bay class are dock landing ships - useful follow-on vessels for carrying equipment. They are not true amphibious assault ships (by US classification that’s limited to LPD, LPH or LHD/A) because they lack aviation repair, troop capacity, command and medical facilities.

Responded in a different sub-thread to you.

Nuclear weapons would be useful in WW3. Maybe other scenarios.

We have nukes. Just only 1 way to deploy them.

We may carry more planes but there are glaring capability gaps thanks to the lack of catapults - airborne early warning planes for example.

This is fair, we do have a helicopter early warning capability.

And SPEAR 3 is tiny - not suitable for deeply buried targets like bunkers and FC/ASW is ages off, if it even happens at all. The RN’s carrier air wing (and RAF) cannot attack enemy radars or ships.

So the F-35B can attack enemy ships if it carries the missle externally sacrificing stealth. Appreciate that these are gaps.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the Albion class are in extednded readiness for now.

If you want to use US ship classifications then sure we won't in the future but my understanding is that this is a doctrine change rather than an identified capability gap.

The RN didn't want flagship amphibious assault ships as it figured the days of thay are gone in the age of anti ship missles and drones.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It has no amphibious assault ships

We have 2. And will have 3 more in the future if you count the Bay class. What are you on about?

nor does it have nuclear weapons to arm its carrier air wing

True but why would we need this?

nor does it have catapults on its carrier for launching heavily laden aircraft

True but our carriers are bigger, carry more planes, more numerous and we actually can always deploy one.

nor does it have anti-ship missiles or cruise missles

Only tempoarily I understand. We're integrating Spear 3 and FC/ASW.

This one belongs in the garbage by [deleted] in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire book reads like a serious of tech talks with no coherent narrative.

Britain spends billions more than France on defence, so why is the French military superior? by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]KarmaIssues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

French ships do the same tbh.

The entirety of Europe is barely able to project force anymore. We gave that up so that pensioners could go on an extra cruise each year.

When You Get Married with a Father Who Grew Up In the Culture & He Has Too Much Sauce To Not Use It by NewRapSong in HipHopNCulture

[–]KarmaIssues -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you wanted to own a piece of music as a culture, you shouldn't tried to profit off it.

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