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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.

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

I think I read that donating your plasma was a good way to eliminate microplastics from your system. So while that doesn’t improve the overall dystopian-ism of this, it’s a bit of a silver lining? I guess?