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  • I think it’s fine to pay some for it.

    I don’t know how your healthcare system is structured. But let’s assume there is a profit motive in getting you to donate blood. Let’s also assume profit is a problem. So we want to reduce profits.

    1. If you get €25 per donation that is €25 less profit for them per donation.

    2. The demand for blood is going to stay the same. No one will decline a live saving surgery because it’s a bit expensive and will pay anything to get it. Increasing supply will decrease profit margins.









  • Not much. You can’t spend enough of their money before they stop your spending and start collecting it.

    How much credit can you get without a high income or a lot of assets? Hopefully much smaller than your mortgage (which is that the 2008 crisis was about).

    Exactly what happens depends on law where you live. Here you’d get a court order: First confiscation of cash or cash equivalents. Second sale of assets, in the end your pay would be garnished. Since not everyone is forced to sell their house (like 2008) the price drop would be smaller but spread across the entire economy.

    Unless you’re willing to illegally work without a contract and only take cash payments they will get their money back.

    Anyone who did not participate in it would have a good time buying cheap stuff in the forced sale.



  • I don’t want kids so that narrows down the dating pool to something more like a dating puddle.

    I generally keep to myself. Every social skill I have comes from deliberate practice.

    I did manage to find a girl. What I did:

    Figure out what my strengths are and in what situations I get to show them. I get compliments on having a pleasant voice. So anywhere I’ll talk some is good.

    Work on mitigating your weaknesses.

    Work on being a {pick one or more: fun/pleasant/useful/positive/etc} person to be around.

    What I did not tell you is how long I had to do this.





  • Attitude: I generally don’t care unless they try to tell me what to do based on their religion. This is generally never a problem, I’ve had more vegans and environmentalists bother me.

    Getting along: we have some high faith denomination of Christianity here. I’ve worked with a few and generally don’t notice unless they drop something heavy on their foot and don’t swear.

    Thought of believing: not since I was 12 or something.

    Do not like faiths: I acknowledge they can create a sense of community and belonging. I have a dim view of the dogma that tends to come with them.





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    Turns out you can make up any arbitrary distinctions and they just start existing. The question is if they severe any useful purpose.

    I can make zodiac 2.0 exist by adding shoe size to distinguish between regular aquarius and aquarius without platypus (above EU 42 is with). So now the Zodiac 2.0 exists with the same predictive power as 1.0.