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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

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Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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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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  • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world
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    For those of us who cant sell thier plasma its even more obvious theres no middle class

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    Welcome to the united States of dystopia.

    And haven’t you already left the “middle class” if you need that to make ends meet?

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    Point of of pedantry: theres no such thing as middle class. Its working class and Parasite class

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    You have already fallen through the wet paper floor of the middle class if you’re selling plasma to “make ends meet.” The ends that are meeting are the edge of existence and the beginning of hell.

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    “The rich have found a way to make the middle class harvestable as livestock.”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Damn… I only have an LCD, not a plasma 😩

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    But fox news and newsmax and the dictator and his shit eating bitch attorney general say that its the best economy ever

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