RE: When Blood Donation goes Commercial

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IMHO, "profit" is not the problem. A profit occurs whenever the thing produced is more valuable than the thing invested.

If a person who had COVID19 sells blood and a lab extracts the monoclonal antibodies; then the lab created a valuable treatment for COVID19. The difference between the cost or extracting the blood and the treatment is profit.

Profit is a wonderful thing.

The thing we need to avoid is exploitation. Exploitation happens when the source of the blood is not compensated or if it is taken from people in ways that harm the donor.

It is ironic, but the blood donation system which refuses to compensate the donors for their time and effort is engaged in exploitation while the plasma centers that pay for the blood end up distributing money to people who are often in need of the money.



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