Australian whose blood saved 2.4M babies dies

I've been donating plasma a lot for the past three years and one thing I noticed is how obsessed the people at the center are with the number of donations one has made. People talk about it all the time, they ask you how many you've done as if measuring your worth, the nurses congratulate you on reaching certain thresholds and they even give you label pins with the number on it, the number is plastered in huge font on the website when you take an appointment. The old men (because they are always men) who have made 1000+ donations talk to you about how you can make certain types of donations that count as 3 at once.

I find it disappointing how gamified the system has been, and how people come to measure each others by the number, which becomes a very tangible karma number. In a way, this game has become their best incentive to get people to donate continuously, given how it's illegal in Canada to pay someone to give blood fluids.