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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8082196" data-attributes="member: 6998052"><p>For ordinary ambo service, it takes 50,000 people to support a 24/7 service of one crew. Even drastically increasing the price would not make this as an economic way to impact market share.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Unless the social standards are far higher than today's (which would make the armed EMTs invalid), poor people disappearing or being murdered will not attract all that much police attention. For instance, on one weekend this summer Chicago had 114 people (nearly all poor) shot, to include two infants. It has not attracted more than routine interest. 600,000 Americans go missing each year; about a quarter are never heard from again. Again, routine. Each year 4400 corpses will be found that will not be identifiable until a considerable time has passed. A quarter of them never will be ID'd.</p><p></p><p>In an air-car future, where the public will tolerate heavily-armed EMTs using violence to shave minutes or seconds off a 1%er's medtransit will certainly not be inclined to care more about the poor than we do now. So again, grabbing the poor is still your best option. Anything that happens to rich people draws attention. To use a RL example, Paris Hilton's hours-long jail sentence a few years ago received several times more column inches and air time than any death sentence issued that year. Or execution. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So you grab young poor people, as I have noted. There's no substitute for youth, and as you say, high-end users are not going to want organs which have seen forty+ years of hard use. Healthcare is damage control; you want to harvest organs of someone who has not lived long enough to fully develop bad habits, and who had never had need of healthcare.</p><p></p><p>Which could create a situation where the poor would protect themselves from organ harvesting by feigning long-term illnesses....</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 8082196, member: 6998052"] For ordinary ambo service, it takes 50,000 people to support a 24/7 service of one crew. Even drastically increasing the price would not make this as an economic way to impact market share. Unless the social standards are far higher than today's (which would make the armed EMTs invalid), poor people disappearing or being murdered will not attract all that much police attention. For instance, on one weekend this summer Chicago had 114 people (nearly all poor) shot, to include two infants. It has not attracted more than routine interest. 600,000 Americans go missing each year; about a quarter are never heard from again. Again, routine. Each year 4400 corpses will be found that will not be identifiable until a considerable time has passed. A quarter of them never will be ID'd. In an air-car future, where the public will tolerate heavily-armed EMTs using violence to shave minutes or seconds off a 1%er's medtransit will certainly not be inclined to care more about the poor than we do now. So again, grabbing the poor is still your best option. Anything that happens to rich people draws attention. To use a RL example, Paris Hilton's hours-long jail sentence a few years ago received several times more column inches and air time than any death sentence issued that year. Or execution. So you grab young poor people, as I have noted. There's no substitute for youth, and as you say, high-end users are not going to want organs which have seen forty+ years of hard use. Healthcare is damage control; you want to harvest organs of someone who has not lived long enough to fully develop bad habits, and who had never had need of healthcare. Which could create a situation where the poor would protect themselves from organ harvesting by feigning long-term illnesses....[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
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