• @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    67 months ago

    People donate blood, plasma, sperm and breast milk from all walks of life already. Some get paid too.

    If you want it to be about a particular group in can be, but even well off people donate/get money for their bodily fluids.

    • @new_guy@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      Donation is one thing completely different than selling their fluids. There’s no incentive to exploit people when there’s not a payback in cash.

      • @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        And people sell them too already. They aren’t exploited.

        Yeah there will be people that try to abuse it, that applies to literally everything in life and should never be the reason to not do something.

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            7 months ago

            Unless they are forced to it can’t be exploitation.

            Now if they work health benefits into instead of just paying better wages, that would be more on the exploitation side. But thats the bad eggs ruining it for the other 98% that don’t abuse it.

            • Sybil
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              17 months ago

              it’s definitely exploitation. you just don’t like the connotation. they are being exploited for their blood just like a well is exploited for oil a mountain is exploited for minerals and forests are exploited for wood.

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                7 months ago

                Exploit has multiple meanings, exploiting a resource and exploiting someone in an underhand or unfair way do have the same phrase to explain them. But exploiting a resource is obviously much different than treating workers unfairly.

                Verbs and nouns typically have different meanings for the same word, maybe time for an English refresher.

                • Sybil
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                  7 months ago

                  since you clearly went to a dictionary, you can see none of the definitions even mention “force”.

                • Sybil
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                  17 months ago

                  mounds and greens have nothing to do with this. we are only using the transitive verb here.

                • Sybil
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                  17 months ago

                  I’m using it correctly. don’t be condescending. you might think it’s a fair exploitation, but it’s exploitation nonetheless.

                  • @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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                    07 months ago

                    Not your decision it make. Hazard pay exists for a reason, many people view that as exploitation as well. Doesn’t make it so, sorry.

                    Words have different meanings, and you missed the mark thinking it was like mining.