Titmuss' "Gift Relationship" argument decades later - interesting to think about re: sex, childcare http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-we-shouldnt-pay-canadians-to-donate-blood/article18123479/ … (super sad sorry)
@sarahdoingthing Notice what they didn't say? They didn't say "the total number of donors decreases". One assumes because it's not true.
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@St_Rev husband is asleep in the room with the titmuss book in it but I think he showed the total supply decreased -
@St_Rev (blood supply quantity & quality was lower in US where payment was legal than in the UK where illegal) -
@sarahdoingthing I bow to actually relevant knowledge! I'm just grumpy at the talking heads. -
@St_Rev there are lots of reasons the US and UK were different at the time (even blood liability law) but I keep Titmuss in my head -
@St_Rev wonder if selling hours should trigger us as much as selling blood - measure of sacrifice, yes, but still cutting people into pieces -
@sarahdoingthing That's an insight that the left has a piece of and the libertarian right has a different piece of.
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing voluntary = unpaid? seems obv some (esp poor) ppl will insist on $ if it's offered - I have no problem with this -
@schakalsynthetc@sarahdoingthing Yeah, that's my point: voluntary != total, and latter would seem more important. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing runs up against sentimentalism tho: "some things just shouldn't be bought & sold [no attempt to explain why]" -
@schakalsynthetc@sarahdoingthing Yeah, that was my point 1). :) -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing guess I could have just said "amen" & saved everyone some bandwidth :)
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