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> If no one else will work for free, I will not either.

If you're deceased, what sort of labor are you doing exactly?

To me, your argument seems to fall more along the lines of your body and organs being property that can be inherited by your family in the same was as cash, real estate, etc. Which is an interesting idea.

But ultimately it's called "donation" for a reason. If you donate to, say UNICEF or Red Cross, you're also the only one in the chain who doesn't get paid.

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>If you're deceased, what sort of labor are you doing exactly?

Keeping the kidney healthy so that it is usable upon death?

The one piece of labor necessary to become an organ donor is to check a box when applying for or renewing your driver's license.

You have no obligation to do anything else or even think about it ever again. You can make exactly the choices you prefer without regard for your organ health, if you like.

They asked what labor you'd be doing to be compensated for upon donating an organ after death. Simply checking the box doesn't ensure that your organs are healthy enough to donate. The monetary compensation would be for keeping the organs in a healthy enough state to be actually donatable (rather than just potentially donatable, as is the case with just checking the box).

If you make life decisions that keep your organs healthy enough to donate, the primary beneficiary of that isn't the organ procurement agency, it's *you*. You'll live longer and have better health. I wouldn't call optimizing your personal wellbeing "labor" or "work."

That's not a requirement to be an organ donor though. Unless you have religious beliefs about the sanctity of an intact corpse, then the only potential harm is wasted resources checking if your organs are viable.

You're not doing much of that once you're dead.

Frequently I do things for which the reward arrives later. The labour comes first, the reward for it comes later. If someone will parasitize my labour, I will block him.

Unlike donation to UNICEF, if I don't do it, people don't call me a Nazi, a paedophile, or other such things https://web.archive.org/web/20240417004658/https://news.ycom...

But I am right, and society will turn to my view in time. For now, the rich will harvest the poor for free. But in time, at least they will have to pay them what they want. We will fix this bug.

To everyone else: I hit my rate limit responding to you all, so I'm afraid you must remain unresponded to.

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