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Imagine a dystopian future where there is vampires. The vampires being super wealthy individuals who have resorted to feeding on the young and vulnerable. Sending out blood hunters to grab people and then drain them. Others prefer the convenience of an ontap blood donor, living in their houses and being well looked after.

Peter Thiel will have founded another company called Blód which he manages from his real life reconstruction of Orthanc. There he uses data crunching to source the healthiest and most vulnerable blood donors.

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There he uses data crunching to source the healthiest and most vulnerable blood donors.

This is a plot hole. Healthiest and most vulnerable are directly at odds. Extreme vulnerability (and poverty) does bad things to one's health. Good health is a good antidote to vulnerability.

This is one of those cases where evil is its own solution or antidote because this fundamentally doesn't work, a la "Going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."

You’re overlooking the agency granted by real wealth!

The vulnerable needn’t be poor. They only need be situated where the exercise of your power could put them into a position to sell.

FWIW, I've spent the past few years dirt poor.

Feel free to decide if you think that makes my opinion an informed opinion or if it means my bias is showing. :)

Why would there be blood hunters?

Just let the indebted young sell their blood for pennies and they'll jump at the idea.

Am I not mistaken that in the US it's already common to get paid for blood donations? (Here, in Poland, you only got a couple bars of chocolate for it). So, people in the US are already ok with selling their flesh (at least the part that does it for money, and not to help others).

> Am I not mistaken that in the US it's already common to get paid for blood donations?

My understanding is that it in the US, it is common to be paid for blood plasma, but highly uncommon (I've never heard of it happening) to be paid for blood.

Horrible idea in reality, but fantastic idea for a book!!

Barad-Dûr sounds more like Thiel's thing.

The only thing wrong with vampires is that they unnecessarily kill people, if they used their amazing tallants productively (working as historians, spies, converting people into vampires, or just touring) they would easily earn enough money to buy more blood than they need. (though to be honest even considering their mistakes, they are a nice bunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8)

> Imagine a dystopian future where there is vampires. The vampires being super wealthy individuals who have resorted to feeding on the young and vulnerable.

This is already the case.

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