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Meanwhile In The Real World, Americans Sell Hair, Breast Milk And Eggs To Make Ends Meet
With a stunning 41% of global wealth in the hands of a mere 0.7% of the world's population, the lower- and middle-class continue to fight amongst themselves for the scraps to maintain a decent standard of living. In the US, with the home-equity ATM now closed (and maybe EBT interrupted), those struggling to make ends meet are turning to the only "asset" they have left that is unencumbered (for now) - their body parts.
As Bloomberg reports, since the beginning of 2011, 'hair,' 'eggs,' or 'kidney' have been among the top four autofill results for the Google search query, 'I want to sell my...;' and "the fact that people even explore it indicates that there are still a lot of people worried about their financial outlook," as hair, breast milk and eggs are doubling as ATMs for more and more cash-strapped Americans.
As one analyst noted,
“This is very much unlike every other recovery that we’ve had. It’s going to be a slow-grinding, very frustrating recovery.”
Which should come as no surprise given the massive wealth inequalities...
Personal wealth varies across adults for many reasons.
Some individuals with little wealth may be at early stages in their careers, with little chance or motivation to accumulate assets. Others may have suffered business setbacks or personal misfortunes, or live in parts of the world where opportunities for wealth creation are severely limited.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are individuals who have acquired a large fortune through a combination of talent, hard work or simply being in the right place at the right time.
The wealth pyramid above captures these differences in striking detail. It has a large base of low wealth holders, alongside upper tiers occupied by progressively fewer people.
Via Bloomberg,
Hair, breast milk and eggs are doubling as automated teller machines for some cash-strapped Americans such as April Hare.
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“I was just trying to find ways to make money, and I remembered Jo from ‘Little Women,’ and she sold her hair,” the 35-year-old from Atlanta said. “I’ve always had lots of hair, but this is the first time I’ve actually had the idea to sell it because I’m in a really tight jam right now.”
The mother of two posted pictures of her 18-inch auburn mane on www.buyandsellhair.com, asking at least $1,000 and receiving responses within hours. Hare, who also considered selling her breast milk, joins others exploring unconventional ways to make ends meet as the four-year-old economic expansion struggles to invigorate the labor market and stimulate incomes.
In all but two quarters since the beginning of 2011, “hair,” “eggs,” or “kidney” have been among the top four autofill results for the Google search query, “I want to sell my...,” ...
While Americans can legally sell hair, breast milk and eggs, the sale and purchase of a kidney in the U.S. is against the law.
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“If you’ve been unemployed for years, if you’re on food stamps and you’ve had trouble getting by, I can totally see you being very economically desperate,” Colas said. “I don’t think a lot of people sell their kidneys. I do think a lot of people in desperation do that search to say, ‘If worse comes to worst what could I do?’”
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The average donor is about 27 years old, and 78 percent have a college degree or are pursuing one, Williams said. More than half of donor applications come through an online resource.
The Internet is probably responsible for much of the increased interest in cashing in on body parts, Becker said. Online search engines and exchanges make communications between “buyers and sellers of things like organs or hair much easier,” he said.
Perhaps the last paragraph sums up the US citizenry's perspective better than any other:
“I’ve been growing my hair out for maybe a little over two years, and I just decided now was the time since I lost my job,” MacDonald said. “It doesn’t cost anything to grow your hair out and sell it for money. It’s basically profit with very little work. Anything you can do, I’m sure people are willing to do it.”
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Not to worry - they still have kidneys left to sell.
Days of marijuanna and no money, are better than days of money and no marijuanna.
Something that didn't hear or see EVEN during the Great Depression (Thanks Obama!):
{On any one of thousands of street corners across the country & down in Obamavilles}
"Breast Milk! Get your fresh, creamy Breast Milk here!"
Only if I can draw it straight from the tap.
Roseanne Barr just gave you the green light........
I hear she's in the market for man-chowder.
It's the circle of life, some folks live fabulously wealthy doing not much of anything at all, others sell their organs to scrape by. Free market, don't fight it - if people don't want to sell their organs as an alernative to starvation, then starve. Geez, all so simple!
+1 for simplicity of the obvious
Damn! It sucks to be bald ...
The Obama Economy has EVEN crushed African-Americans, as finally admitted by fellow hardcore liberals:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tavis-smiley-black-people-are-not-better-off-...
As we reported this week, PBS radio host Tavis Smiley debated Fox’s Sean Hannity over the government shutdown. Another interesting nugget from that interview is when Smiley asserted that the lot of black Americans has not improved under this current presidency.
“Are black Americans better off five years into the Obama presidency?” Hannity bluntly asked the political radio host.
“Let me answer your question very forthrightly: No, they are not,” Smiley responded. “The data is going to indicate, sadly, that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/cornel-west-attacks-al-sharpton-bonafide-...
Cornel West Attacks Al Sharpton: ‘Bonafide House Negro of the Obama Plantation’
“Brother Martin himself, I think, would’ve been turning over in his grave,” West said of the event. “[King would have wanted] people to talk about Wall Street criminality, he wants people to talk about war crimes, or drones dropping bombs on innocent people,” he asserted.
“Instead,” he lamented, “we saw the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton.” West went further declaring that Sharpton’s decline was “supported by [MSNBC analyst] Michael Dyson and others who’ve prostituted themselves in a very ugly and vicious way.”
Free market for the poor folks, cronyism for the billionaires! Winning!
Cambodian breastmilk ftmfw
Automatic +1 for Chappelle's Show reference.
Haha oh yes!
Speaking of straight from the tap, do sperm banks pay for donations? I looked into selling plasma to make some extra money, but my blood is usually around 50% alcohol, so I'd probably be denied.
I could fill a bucket with man-sauce if I'd get money for it.
Bad luck Molotov.All the cashiers at the sperm bank look
like Yellen on a bad day.
Yeah, and they just give you some lousy porn and expect you to do all the work.
and all the pages are stuck together...
LOL Back in college we'd all go up Friday morning and donate blood plasma; the money gained was enough for a case and a half of beer apiece.
We were never sure, but we assumed the loss of blood components made the follow on alcohol all the more potent.
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Just make sure it's not raw breast milk if you want to avoid those USDA SWAT team raids.
Why not have both, just shoot the dealer.
It's the perfect libertarian world, where everything has a price. So was slavery.
So I don't see why this is even an issue.
How exactly does slavery fit in a world where every man is sovereign and free?
that's because perhaps you don't understand what the very word sovereign means. if you are indeed sovereign, I can engage in war with you, beat you and... well, look at history, plenty of examples of gruesome ends to sovereigns. mutilations, decapitations, selling into slavery, etc. etc.
You trying to move in on Israel's black market ??......Bibi will not like that.
Why would a woman sell eggs or kidneys when she could dance on a pole or sell her puss-puss?
Seems rather invasive and drama-queenish to undergo surgery for cash.
When things get much worse hair and milk won't be all that women will be selling.
That would be under "services" as opposed to "products".
Yep. Most Zhers will have harems and rightfully so! The physical gold owners should inherit the world bitchez!
"Most Zhers will have harems"
I can tell you don't even have the first woman. A guy who has one woman does not entertain any idiotic ideas about keeping up a harem.
Or keeping up with a harem. Even when I was 16 I wasn't that dumb. Or maybe I was, I can't remember.
unlike polygamy marriage, a harem means you get to keep 'em in line because you do not bow to them.
Hell they already are craigslist, sugarbabies.com, etc...
Yep you'll be able to buy Kate Upton for a night for just a 12 oz. can of green beans and a fried squirrel.
"If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tons of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults." - Borat. Ich bin ein Borat.
Don't forget to sell the blood...those platelets are MONEY !
I work in a college town near one of those places, and noticed that the waiting room has over 20 chairs, nearly always filled.
I'm not sure I'd want their blood, though. They don't look too healthy.
Fed/IRS: Legalize & register all vice, and tax it. Registration is good for standardizing and improving quality, and bullish for a Consumer/Prosumer-led recovery.
Long Johns. /s
Does this organ market have brokers? It seems like what it needs is a middleman to charge a few percent to facilitate this.
There should be a stock market quote, option and CDS on organ trading... I mean, HFT need to take their cuts from this business! Otherwise, it's just socialism!
Oh of course:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/24/national/main5185902.shtml
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sweeping-federal-probe-nabs-crooked-...
the kosher nostra!
And for the ultimate lulz from the 1st link:
"Gov. Jon Corzine said: "The scale of corruption we're seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated.""
the kosher nostra!
And for the ultimate lulz from the 1st link:
"Gov. Jon Corzine said: "The scale of corruption we're seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated." "
and a reverse-repo market-exchange for kidney-default swaps!
97% Owned - Economic Truth documentary - Queuepolitely cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo (2:10:23)
A country that can not help the many that are poor, can not save the few who are rich!
Selling breast hair? That's just gross!
can i sell my pubic hair?
I am surprised that selling sperm did not make the rankings
Not a good market. Too many are willing to give it away.
Pregnant women were much sought after by the wealthy patrons in Berlin when Germany tanked. Men sold their wives and daughters to buy food.
Its always greener on the other side of the fence. My ex- wouldn't have brought much value in exchange anyway. She was pretty used up. I would have let her go for a back of cigarettes and some canned milk.
We buy eggs from a lady at my wife's school.
So?
your profile pic + that comment = comedy gold. i needed a laugh and if we can't still find a way to laugh, all is lost in my opinion.
2 funnnnee !
exactly the way it was meant to work, when they conspired to create this scheme some time ago.
Selling body parts for fiat paper... Good Lord. If your going to sell a piece of your body, albeit kidney, hair, soul or what have you, make sure your going to get something worth while for it.
Eventually people realize that using paper bills automatically allows these parasites a portion of your personal wealth. Until then, watch how well it is utilized....
Old man Amschel Mayer Rothschild would be proud.
“This is very much unlike every other recovery that we’ve had. It’s going to be a slow-grinding, very frustrating recovery.”
Yeah because IT AIN'T ONE. YOU FUCKING SHILL.
With a stunning 41% of global wealth in the hands of a mere 0.7% of the world's population
... and even worse in America...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
Me thinks in feudalism times the peasants had it better than they have it now.
Re: Me thinks in feudalism times the peasants had it better than they have it now.
Well, tough to compare. But, if you include unlimited (near) food, gladiator battles, cheap bling, porn, hot-water, and antibiotics the US debt-serfs have it pretty good.
The US perhaps has created the best feudal society ever, and that's quite an accomplishment. As long as the peasants continue to "know their place" I think we'll be fine.
Yeah but at least you had a house, a place to live... it was owned by the lord, but today, the banksters kick you out of your house and you end up on the street. The house stays empty, but eh, fuck ya!
Survival of the fittest, bitchz.
But a "survival of the fittest society" doesn't always work out the way the semi-austistics fantasized it would.
Nature can be denied for only so long.
Banksters make good food too.
Better Soylent Green from all the green they have stolen? A hint of caviar and champagne with a distinct overture of tuffles.
I would need my banker well done. I wouldn't want to risk food poisoning from their diseases.
During the early 1930's economic collapse in Germany, it was considered a "blessing" by many to have a prostitute in the family.
Things did not end well there.
"During the early 1930's economic collapse in Germany, it was considered a "blessing" by many to have a prostitute in the family.
Things did not end well there."
Where did they end well?
"it was considered a "blessing" by many to have a prostitute in the family."
yikes!
i'm an only child !!!
:)
Are you good looking?
wow...you city boys are a bit out of touch aintcha. As a kid we raised chicken for eggs and food, sold some, traded some. We raised a cow every year too. This year my garden fed me, I traded veggies for venison and even a little ammo and I canned and froze tons of food. Does this make me a desperate, starving Merican? Nope, it just means I'm smart and would rather eat good food that the shit most of you "wealthy, city slickers" eat.
Women sell breast milk because it is supposed to be better for a baby then formula. Some women can't produce milk.
Selling hair is what people do for cancer patients. It's just a nice gesture.
Kind of drawing at some thin straws here....sounding more like BI then what we would expect out you guys. What next? Bashing the "barbourus relic", Gold?
Great post, but please STOP saying 'veggies'; we, and I assume you, are not retards so how about you post like an adult and not like you're talking to an exceptionally slow 5 year old?
Also - The Bad Guys - name the enemy, assume your reader can handle it
Also - Baby bump - good lord, what is wrong with you?
If you cannot imagine John Wayne saying it, then you shouldn't either.
"If you cannot imagine John Wayne saying it, then you shouldn't either".
On that note, can you see John Wayne using Facebook or sending a Tweet?
You assume, incorrectly, that I use Facebook and/or tweet. My dog has a facebook page though.
I did'nt assume anything. My post stands by itself.
And on that note, John Wayne's real manly name is Marion.
So sorry...I meant to say Tomatoes, Zucchini, Lettuce, Spinach, melons (3 kinds, do I need to be specific?)
Off your meds?
Not at all. Here is a new word for you - vegetables. Eat your vegetables. Do you eat your meaties? Drink your milkies? Go for a walkie? Ride your horsie? Spank your monkey? Ok, cut that last one.
in the UK it's very common to talk about "veggies"
As long as retards on zerohedge insist global warming is a myth, even worse, insist there is now global cooling - this is speaking at their level.
Just imagine, tards so dumb they can deny the obvious global catastrophe while pretending the invisible skyfaerie will instead bring "judgment day" and son of the skyfaerie (who already died).
You'd have to be insane to follow that shit line of a story.
Well, you're in luck, Shed Boy. I'd rather starve among educated people, than eat heartily among your ilk.
I'll gladly barter out by the shed, city fool.
In the Kingdom of the 50 States, it's become moar and moar bullish for hookers too.
Finding Nemo - Fish Are Friends Not Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Zk1nd_dY8 (3:09)
Finding Nemo - Sorry about Bruce, mate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4CTuNACDM (0:16)
And we have 1342 Billionaires.
"combination of talent, hard work or simply being in the right place at the right time"
Riiiiggggghhhttt. Hard work.
Time to revise The Bill Of Rights.
Grasping at straws. When it comes to maintaining the trappings of middle class existence, there aren't many things the plebs won't do - futilely, of course.
The only thing that matters is whether you're selling to afford dinner, or to afford another month of iPhone service. Priorities are the first casualty of prosperity.
All the wealth to a small handful of people, and the sheep live on the elite's crumbs.
But clearly the sheep like it that way -- they keep voting for it.
In an 'american' society, one gets rich by satisfying the 'american' middle class aka WeThePeople.
This is how it works in an 'american' world.
Once again, this AnAnonymous commenter, as a Chinese citizenism citizen, has produced what Chinese citizenism citizens mass produce: cheap propaganda.
Whats new? We are all Serfs. Prostitution is the worlds oldest profession, btw
I've always wondered how prostitution was the world's oldest profession; how could you pay an ancient whore, unless you did some other activity to earn a good or wage to pay for her delicate secrets?
giving head is still the most lucrative, ahem, manual skill ther is out there. there are very low barriers to entry and competition is limited despite the number of participants in the market. a blowjob a day to keep the bill collector away. more girls should consider it.
Head would be an oral skill, like reading a Teleprompter, while a hand-job could be more appropriately described as manual labor.
It’s going to be a slow-grinding, very frustrating recovery.
Still not willing to give up on the "recovery" fairytale, eh?
Don’t any of you remember who signed the Budget Control Act of 2011?
Obama signed it.
That was his opportunity to honor his campaign pledge to only tax the RICH.
His credibility would be much higher if he had Vetoed the tax increases on the non-rich.
In doing so, the president said, "Is this the deal I would have preferred? No. But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need, and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year."[13]
Harry Reid AND Boehner and many House members signed it, too.
Now they’re trying to protect their ‘jobs’ by assuming we’re clueless sheep.
Fool us twice, shame on US!
Small business creation...bullish! This probably justifies doubling IRS staffing to make sure all nickel-dime sales and bartering are accounted for and taxed.
That one makes it for the day.
'Americans' want to sell the doubt that taxation in a voluntary act in an 'american' society.
Quite often, when it comes to organs harvesting, in other societies, it is a forceful act with squads adbucting people, taking out the organ and leaving the abducted to survive as possible if possible.
'Americans' know a lot about those squads since they created them and keep operating so many of them.
The miracle of an 'american' society is that this kind of taxation is voluntary. 'Americans' rush to the ticket office to sell their organs.
Aint life sweet in an 'american' society?
With an 'american' soul, mind and heart, let 'americans' repell that insane law banning organs sales. People own their own body and should be able to sell their organs if they will.
I see trees of kidney........ red hearts too
I see em harvest..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world,
An 'american' world.
I see river pig flotillas........ wokked dogs too
I see stir fried kittens..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world,
An AnAnonymous Chinese citizenism world.
Did those wokked dogs jump in voluntary?
If so, they did it because it is an 'american' society.
'American' dogs...
Perhaps those wokked dogs were just fleeing the stinking mountains of Chinese Citizenism roadside feces.
Not wanting to live like a Chinese Citizenism shitizen, they preferentiated to die with some shred of honor.
You know, jumping from the flying pan into the file.
Typical Chinese citizenism offuscation and denialry displayed by AnAnonymystical propagator, pushing blame for dog wokkery onto the wokked dog while accepting benefitial aspects of canine cuisine.
Chinese citizenism citizens are the new nobility of the world, living off many, many priviledges...
Making numbers... Once again, 'americans' lumping the lower class with the middle class to push the middle class' best interests...
A crowd is a lot of people indeed, and since the sufferings of the middle class is just fantasy with the confusion made between former members of the middle class being degraded from middle to lower.
The picture cant even hide that.
Stopping to call people who are no longer middle class would solve the problem.
Because once they were middle class and now are lower class does not mean they are entitled to middle class status for a lifetime.
Oh, wait, that is exactly what 'americans' think, 'american' middle class should be for life...
Made me laugh. Chinese citizenism citizens can not stand definitions of words. They need perpetual redefining to make their woobly stuff stay together.
Chinese citizenism citizens are isolated from reality as shown by the comment. They can not even write a verbose comment with three or four ideas with it, without issuing massive contradictions, classifying the piece in what Chinese citizenism citizens do the best: AnAnonymous cheap propaganda.
Umm, you're no longer allowed to get as rich as you can in an 'american' society?
Djeee, looks like the good old days when hiding that in a no growth society, the rich man's gains are the poor's man losses are over.
Ah, when the Indians and their lands were there to hide that little inconvenient fact, it was so good.
It was when 'america' was free, free as free it is in an 'american' conception.
What a waste of resources Chinese citizenism citizens are. None of their words bring something other than lies, gross distortion of reality, ever increasing denial etc.
This from the same guy priorly quoting runs for the hills lyrics of British citizenism band Ironed Maiden glorifying hunting Indians for sport. Typical hypocritizenism one must expect of Chinese citizenism.
Of course, having a discrete approach to responsibility, that is claiming responsibility for rewarding consequences and rejecting responsibility for adverse consequences is 'AnAnonymist' behavior.
Run to the hills lyrics are that?
JKC, one could have thought they reported the common 'american' vision...
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Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
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Marvellous thing is that the song was written before 'americans' started their hunting season on muslims.
That song captures part of the 'american' psyche. Chasing the "enemy" back to their holes is somehow the way 'americans' perceive themselves when warring...
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Caught in lies, feigning surprise, it is so Chinese citizenish. Ah, memory, memory... No surprise Chinese citizenism citizens hate on memorization, on the past, the past is coming back full fledge at them, them and their drivel lies...
Still spamming your chain of JKC* Chinese citizenism fastfood franchises? Funny as a farting sea elephant.
Typical of AnAnonymist hypocritizenism. Pour admonishmentations on US 'american' citizens about the Indians, but can't get enough of British citizenism heavy metals Ironed Maidens when reveling in the glory of hunting Indians for sport.
In Chinese citizenism, extirpatings of aborigenicals is all about the glory, the glory.
Best. Perhaps number one Chinese citizenism fan of Ironed Maidens can suggesting them sing praises of hunting Muslims for sport new song gloriously.
*Just Killed Cat, chain of popular Chinese citizenism fastfood wokkeries.