Ali Zaeteri / @alizaeteri:
R to @alizaeteri: The transplant industry is worth $20+ billion per year.
Kidney: $262,000
Liver: $812,000
Heart: $1.4 million
There are long waiting lists of desperate, rich patients.
Hospitals get paid for transplants.
More transplants mean more revenue.
If declaring donors dead sooner increases transplants, and if safeguards don’t prevent bias, then there could be a financial incentive to declare death quickly.
What about black markets?
R to @alizaeteri: The transplant industry is worth $20+ billion per year.
Kidney: $262,000
Liver: $812,000
Heart: $1.4 million
There are long waiting lists of desperate, rich patients.
Hospitals get paid for transplants.
More transplants mean more revenue.
If declaring donors dead sooner increases transplants, and if safeguards don’t prevent bias, then there could be a financial incentive to declare death quickly.
What about black markets?
Ali Zaeteri / @alizaeteri:
R to @alizaeteri: In other countries...
Political prisoners & minorities are killed for their organ.
Westerners fly in for "emergency transplants", but where do these fresh organs come from?
I personally would not give nor accept an organ of anybody.
If my time to die has come, then so it is.
R to @alizaeteri: In other countries...
Political prisoners & minorities are killed for their organ.
Westerners fly in for "emergency transplants", but where do these fresh organs come from?
I personally would not give nor accept an organ of anybody.
If my time to die has come, then so it is.
Ali Zaeteri / @alizaeteri:
R to @alizaeteri: Organ donation sounds "noble" until you see the truth:
"Brain death" is a loophole to justify organ harvesting imo
The industry is incentivized to take organs over saving lives
There is a massive black market for organs
This is why l'll NEVER be an organ donor.
R to @alizaeteri: Organ donation sounds "noble" until you see the truth:
"Brain death" is a loophole to justify organ harvesting imo
The industry is incentivized to take organs over saving lives
There is a massive black market for organs
This is why l'll NEVER be an organ donor.
PanAm Post:
Propuestas de los candidatos a la Presidencia de Perú: de las más populares a las más insólitas
Propuestas de los candidatos a la Presidencia de Perú: de las más populares a las más insólitas
PanAm Post
Propuestas de los candidatos a la Presidencia de Perú: de las más populares a las más insólitas
Ninguno de los 35 candidatos que aspiran a la Presidencia de Perú supera el 20% en la intención de voto. Sólo ocho intentan rozarlo sin éxito en la víspera de los comicios.
J. P. Mayall / @jpmayall:
Em 8 de abril, o Tesouro dos EUA publicou as regras do GENIUS Act provando que pode congelar qualquer carteira de stablecoin no planeta. No mesmo dia, o Irã começou a cobrar pedágio em Bitcoin no Estreito de Ormuz.
Stablecoins não escapam do dólar. São o dólar. Mas ouro também não resolve. A thread menciona os $300B russos congelados em 2022 como prova de que reservas tradicionais falham. O que não menciona: ouro sofre do mesmo problema estrutural. A Rússia vendeu 15 toneladas de ouro só em ...
Em 8 de abril, o Tesouro dos EUA publicou as regras do GENIUS Act provando que pode congelar qualquer carteira de stablecoin no planeta. No mesmo dia, o Irã começou a cobrar pedágio em Bitcoin no Estreito de Ormuz.
Stablecoins não escapam do dólar. São o dólar. Mas ouro também não resolve. A thread menciona os $300B russos congelados em 2022 como prova de que reservas tradicionais falham. O que não menciona: ouro sofre do mesmo problema estrutural. A Rússia vendeu 15 toneladas de ouro só em ...