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No idea. I don’t think I need a solution to this in order to advocate for organ markets, which would resolve a far more pressing concern

Oh I’m laughing at it now, no need to wait for hindsight

The latter.

> I’m okay conceding this point.

Did you miss this?

I’ll take this solvable problem in exchange for the current state of things

> Most Americans—including a commanding majority of medical experts—wouldn’t.

That’s… fine? I don’t mind most Americans disagreeing with me, that doesn’t offend me at all :)

> We weren’t discussing the “problem of there not being enough organs,” but that of whether such a market could be an effective anti-poverty tool.

I’m okay conceding this point. I don’t care whether it relieves poverty or not. That’s not the goal here

> In exchange you create a monetary incentive for donors to lie about disease status and drug use.

I’ll take this solvable problem in exchange for the much more complex problem of there not being enough organs to go around

Yes

Your belief is unfalsifiable

This comment isn’t valuable and doesn’t add anything. I flagged it.

Sorry, who claims this? Sounds like you’re confused

Deranged statement here

> It's a natural consequence of capitalism. It's in every industry.

The link you posted doesn’t support this claim.

Americans generally hold SPY which makes them Amazon shareholders.

They can by choosing to not sell on Amazon.

It’s funny to me that people look at the wild runaway success of the American experiment and conclude that it needs more cronyism like every other country.

Please feel free to implement whatever unfavorable policies you like in your own nations. You are welcome to further drive down your GDP per capita if you’d like. That’s not what the US is though.

This is not even remotely a response to the question asked by the comment you’re replying to.

In what way is it monopolistic? Amazon has many competitors

None of this is a response to what I said.

Why would we help whichever side is larger?

The current status quo is a result of free association. If people prefer to have credit card debt or use rewards programs poorly then I have no issue with continuing in this manner.

I like rewards programs and disagree that it would be a win. Your suggestion puts me in an objectively worse position.

It’s actually negatively correlated with income lol. Rich people commit way fewer crimes

Just legalize building housing lol

I like Meta and Facebook and would like to support them.

Well inheritance isn’t taking from anyone, it’s a voluntary transaction

Yes, I’d prefer a regressive tax system.

Don’t worry, you won’t be getting any of that money. It’ll be going in entirety to the utility monster (bottom quintile)

So if we stopped sending money to Israel you’d stop talking about Israel and Gaza forever?

This idea that people only care about Israel because we support them with our tax dollars is such a joke

You don’t have to tell me twice!

Oh this is an easy one, because I care about Ukraine more than I care about a million other conflicts that may be happening in the world at the moment.

I think you’ll find that this is the case for everyone - people care about their 2 or 3 pet things and pay little attention to the distractions.