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by manquer 1691 days ago
It is problematic yes, however so is most of medical care, poor don't get access to it as much as the rich do , whether it is countries or people.

Sadly, economics dictate a lot of people's health is going to be like. Living/Work conditions lifestyle, diet are all influenced by wealth.

Poor people work most of the dirty and unhealthy jobs that significantly cut short life spans. Wealth and lifespans are known to be strongly correlated.

As countries we are perfectly comfortable reserving vaccines blocking poor countries with patents, polluting a lot more or exploiting their labor in terrible conditions we wouldn't tolerate. Compared to what we are willing to accept already this doesn't seem worse.

If a commercial system could save more lives(probably more likely rich) it is not that much worse for poor than it already is.

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Uhum. Maybe the next step is to encourage the poor to have more kids so we have a little extra supply?
Before we get to that we should probably harvest organs from prisoners. A person who will spend life in prison has no need for two kidneys.