Economics

If you're selling plasma to make ends meet you aren't middle class, you're poor skilled labor

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?

“First world country”

Well, yeah. Textbooks and weed ain't free. Plus they give you some food afterwards to get past the crash. All you have to do is let a machine extract some of your essence to be used for medical testing. You'll barely miss it.

Let them suffer. They voted for Trump. This is what they get and the only way they might learn. My bet is they'll blame "immigrants" and vote for republicans again during whichever election comes next.