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Comment author: James_Miller 11 August 2015 03:50:43PM 9 points [-]

Harvest organs from living, healthy, poor donors. Go to a poor country and find batches of 100 people earning $1 a day who are willing to give up their lives with probability .01 in return for 20 years wages. You will have to pay out $730,000 per batch, but in return you get the healthy organs from a living donor which should be worth a lot more than this. Run the operation as a charity to reduce negative publicity, and truthfully stress that the prime goal of the charity is to help the poorest of the poor.

Comment author: Romashka 11 August 2015 05:05:03PM 0 points [-]

Healthy people earning 1$ a day? How certain can you be of your choice?

Comment author: James_Miller 11 August 2015 06:52:23PM 1 point [-]

Medical exams. And sadly there are parts of the world where healthy young adults do earn $1 a day or less.