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  You can look at my post history for my car if you want to play that game. 🤣
context: Ah yes, because no dystopian future novel has ever started with "and then the government started to harvest organs from prisoners" :/ >
  
  It’s literally Unwind by Neal Shusterman, I remember the big bads were trying to get a bill to make prisoners go through the unwind process. >
  
  The 'Gil Hamilton' stories by Larry Niven. No prisons on Earth. It's either a fine or you're broken down for parts. Earth has 20 something billion people. >
  
  Also: "A Gift from Earth", by Lary Niven - Where a colony in space is divided into former crew and the passengers, with the crew ruling over everyone, and the passengers getting their organs taken for any little infraction to grant the crew essentially eternal life. >
  
  As a haemophiliac who was lucky to be born two decades after the infamously terrible blood plasma donation scandal (here in the UK) - this sounds like a terrible idea. >
  
  Wait, what? Infamous blood plasma donation? >
  
  Love a happy ending
  “No government, healthcare or pharmaceutical entity in the UK has admitted any liability in the scandal. “ >
  
  This is your reminder that the 13th Amendment banning slavery makes an exception for prisoners.  
  If/when they send you to prison, you are a slave.  This is how they get away with 'paying' you $1 dollar for a day's labor. >
  
  Here’s your pay for assembling shelving we will use in our government buildings.  Oh you want to call your mom this week?  I’ll takkkke that right back. Thanks. >
  
  It's obscene and absolutely soul-crushing to realize that we're all potential slaves to the state. >
  
  Incorrect.
  We are slaves to the entities that control the state: the aristocracy.
  The state is the only means the masses have against the aristocracy. However, when the aristocracy controls food, media, housing, and education, they have little issue turning the masses against the state as a fall guy.
  The state is a tool. The masses have abdicated any responsibility for maintaining the state and checked out; Leaving the aristocracy further in control of the only tool that can control them.
  Hating the government is a narrative fed to the poor by the rich. >
  
  sounds like something someone poor would say