Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's satire.
I'm pretty sure its actually a documentary
It's both.
An anti-ageing startup is offering transfusions of blood from young people
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#22Thought Silicon Valley TV show was a comedy.
It's the future that you chose.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
"His start-up, Ambrosia, is charging about $8,000 a pop for blood transfusions" And a quick google search says that people donating to a blood bank get $20 to $60 a pint, and the blood banks sell for $200-$600 a pint. I wonder if blood banks will figure out the model here and sell direct.
Blood banks in the US tend not to pay for whole blood. Plasma donations are often paid though.
Hmm. Apparently to discourage people with diseases from selling their blood. The plasma doesn't have the issue due to how it is processed, broken down, and used.
As mentioned, though, this creates an odd situation. The donor is sort of misled that they are doing something charitable, which is clearly not the case here.
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#24They buy the blood from blood banks, so people donating blood don't know it's going to paranoid rich people instead of sick people, and they don't get any of the money! Edit: I thought it was illegal in the USA to pay for body parts, but there is an exception for plasma (and maybe the rest of the blood?). But it's already predatory http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06plasma.html and this new business only ma…
Right, I'd be curious what the deal is here. Are they buying blood or plasma? Are the donors compensated? Or do they think they are helping burn victims and end up helping Covfefe supporters?
I've long that people should be allowed to profit from selling their bodies /organs to medicine (especially after they die -- ie selling options), but it seems that only others can profit from your donation for the most part.
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#25The title should be "a scam startup is stealing money from fool people".
And blood from injured people.
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#26vampires
Blood vampires & financial vampires combined! Horrible..
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#27“I don’t want to say the word panacea, but here’s something about teenagers, whatever is in young blood is causing changes that appear to make the aging process reverse.”
Sounds like the most stereotypical trope of snake oil.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blood banks in the US tend not to pay for whole blood. Plasma donations are often paid though.
Hmm. Apparently to discourage people with diseases from selling their blood. The plasma doesn't have the issue due to how it is processed, broken down, and used. As mentioned, though, this creates an odd situation. The donor is sort of misled that they are doing something charitable, which is clearly not the case here.
Blood banks do have plenty of real costs and a payment to the donator would just get passed through to the patients receiving the blood.
It looks like I donate to a for profit organization, but for instance, the Red Cross isn't paying shareholders profits from the blood they sell.
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#29Without knowing how reputable any of this is, I'm somehow not shocked to hear Peter Thiel is interested in medically unnecessary blood transfusions. This could be totally fake, but just based on what I know about him from news, this seems like a perfectly plausible and normal for Peter Thiel interest.
Here's a prior article about this startup and Peter Thiel:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-...
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#30I love that, true to form for the U.S.'s peculiar flavor of capitalism, the producers can't legally sell their product, but those who receive the donations can, leading to a company whose value-add is apparently advertising and customer service creating yet another creepy service for rich paranoids.
Think I'll be checking with the place I occasionally donate to and see where theirs ends up. If they need money, they can ask for that; reselling what I thought was going to hospitals, etc. to these literal vampires is not, ah, kosher with me.