Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPhone and iPad

[thewayne]

Wow. He comes from a poor village, and his parents didn't know until they asked him how he was able to buy the gear. Five people, including the surgeon, have been charge after pocketing the $35,000 that the kidney fetched. And now the kid is suffering from renal insufficiency.

Apparently it was just five years ago that selling organs like this was made illegal.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/five-charged-teen-kidney/

Comments

[silveradept]

It does, indeed. And it doesn't make great sound bites or pithy remarks, which is what I was going for, I guess.

And the worst part is that this manufacturing job is considered an improvement over subsistence living and farming, which is what the countryside has for their options - subsistence farming and subsistence farming.