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)
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@sarahdoingthing "This system is so sacred that we must protect it from the contamination of poor people"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev I thought I was going to get "here's why building blood banks next to homeless shelters is cruel/predatory" but nope titmuss1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Two things jump out--1) "Should we really be allowing a company to take advantage of social inequalities for profit"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing Boilerplate anticapitalist idiocy: when you rewrite it as "give the poor money" this becomes obvious.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing 2) "when a country permits paid blood donations, the number of voluntary donors actually decreases, threatening supply."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Notice what they didn't say? They didn't say "the total number of donors decreases". One assumes because it's not true.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev Well, the policies do trade off signaling currency for $ currency1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@jasonroy0 @St_Rev also they are different populations who want either at the margin, and they have different average pathogen levels :(
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