Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
www.nbcnews.com
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

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  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    IDK what the fuck “middle class” is but I was donating plasma a few years ago when we were making $100k combined, so I guess this is me.

    To be fair, mostly I did it for extra spending money to buy gunpla and dumb shit, and not really to make ends meet

    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
      72·
      2 months ago

      Tbh this adds to the ironic caviar communist image I have of Hexbears when u/sewer_rat_420 is making 100k

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        “They make too much money to be communists, they can’t actually believe in something or work towards a goal because they fail my arbitrary purity test.”

        I’m poor as shit, is this also going to be you:

        “They’re just a communist because they are poor and lazy and jealous of the rich.”

        What a wonderful pair of opinions these are, it means you never need to consider anything beyond the status quo because the people opposed to the status quo are “impure” in one way or another and you can safely disregard anything the scary radicals stay and just stick to nice safe CNN(or your media of choice) approved opinions on things.