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Also extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-rece...

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I'm honestly not sure why this was never more complained about. He ignored medical advice, that's fine I guess, his right. But he effectively stole a liver from someone and essentially wasted it. Must be nice to have FU money.

Given something like 40% of liver transplants go to people with alcohol related diseases this doesn’t bother me too much.

I don't understand your point. Is it "fuck people with addiction issues"?

I’d rather be alive, living my non-rich, non-famous life than to have FU money and be dead.

I think the point is that someone who is non-rich and non-famous might also be non-alive because of this missing liver.

Isn't that one of the big positives of being rich? You can use your funds to get anything that civilization has to offer. If you are salty about this then it's not even a far reach to be salty about rich people in general. They have better food, better entertainment, less pollution around them etc, etc. Which all leads to them having a more longer and fulfilling life in general.

It's one of the positives of being rich in a plutocracy.

Whether plutocracy is a good, never mind ideal, way to organise a planetary culture is very much up for debate.

Definitely! My point was more that I find it odd to see the exact same mechanism all around you every day and then throw your hands up in disgust on this specific instance.

This is disgusting because someone more deserving died when he took the liver that was going to them.

Which other every-day mechanisms results in the death of one of two parties?

The list I posted. Better food and being around less polution literally increases your life expectancy by years.

Let's not pretend rich people don't skip the line. I mean, it's so obvious it would happen, and no amount of regulation will prevent that because whoever is involved can easily be corrupted with FU money.

For sure. That’s the whole basis of healthcare in the US; the more money you have the better it is. I don’t agree with it and I’m glad my country does this differently up to a point but I don’t see why this particular incident is surprising or unfair if that’s the system Americans have decided to live with.

Ah yes, the old organ switcharoo.

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