Actually, there are two ways to limit it. If the price is very low, such as $0, desperation would not affect people’s willingness to sell their organs because the price is so low that it can’t relieve desperation. If the price is very high, desperation is not making people sell the organs for a lowballed price. It’s prices in the middle that are the problem.
(We also do this with normal labor. You can give away your labor for $0, and you can work for an amount that is at least the minimum wage, but nothing inbetween.)
(We also do this with normal labor. You can give away your labor for $0, and you can work for an amount that is at least the minimum wage, but nothing inbetween.)
It feels like you are playing the “Gotcha!” game with the goal of winning rather than communicating your objection to organ selling. I can’t see why else you would argue that organ donation is regulated sale with a price $0.
In that case I am not likely to respond further. It seems obvious to me what the benefits are of a high price with thorough testing, informed consent and exclusion criteria : it would solve the organ shortage and allow for faster advances in research. As to what the harms are I am still unclear.
It’s not a gotcha. I’m not just saying “well, technically, $0 is a number, so that fits what you literally said”. Limiting the price to $0 really is regulation of the price; setting the price to $0 is meant to alleviate some of the problems that could result from allowing a higher price, because it changes the incentives.
What do you think would happen if we duplicated the minimum wage structure in this arena? ‘You can give away your kidney, or sell it for at least X dollars’ where x is some amount deemed to reduce exploitation of the desperate? I like this idea.
Either regulate the price of organs, or not allow people who are desperate (could be defined by income or wealth) to sell their organs.
We already do that. We regulate the price at $0.
Actually, there are two ways to limit it. If the price is very low, such as $0, desperation would not affect people’s willingness to sell their organs because the price is so low that it can’t relieve desperation. If the price is very high, desperation is not making people sell the organs for a lowballed price. It’s prices in the middle that are the problem.
(We also do this with normal labor. You can give away your labor for $0, and you can work for an amount that is at least the minimum wage, but nothing inbetween.)
Ahem.
The minimum wage only affects a particular subset of labor relations.
It feels like you are playing the “Gotcha!” game with the goal of winning rather than communicating your objection to organ selling. I can’t see why else you would argue that organ donation is regulated sale with a price $0.
In that case I am not likely to respond further. It seems obvious to me what the benefits are of a high price with thorough testing, informed consent and exclusion criteria : it would solve the organ shortage and allow for faster advances in research. As to what the harms are I am still unclear.
It’s not a gotcha. I’m not just saying “well, technically, $0 is a number, so that fits what you literally said”. Limiting the price to $0 really is regulation of the price; setting the price to $0 is meant to alleviate some of the problems that could result from allowing a higher price, because it changes the incentives.
What do you think would happen if we duplicated the minimum wage structure in this arena? ‘You can give away your kidney, or sell it for at least X dollars’ where x is some amount deemed to reduce exploitation of the desperate? I like this idea.
Edit: saw comment below.