If diamonds from war zones are rightfully labeled “blood diamonds” to expose their heinous origins, should we not apply the same condemnation to the kidneys harvested from impoverished individuals? Or perhaps we only care about diamonds because a kidney costs a mere 1,774 euros (with female kidneys being valued at a paltry 1,330 euros, according to Sky News)?
Could it be that the real reason we remain indifferent to this atrocity, blind to its existence, is because the poor have been relegated to the status of the “Untermensch” in the 21st century—irrelevant, expendable, and invisible? https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/112-million-hours-of-readingthe-great.html
PS – How is it possible that a Scopus search returns over 300,000 documents with “games” OR “gaming” in the title, abstract, or keywords, and 244,000 on “fashion,” while only around 150,000 publications on “poverty” (a mere 0.2% of all Scopus-indexed articles)? Is it that games and fashion are simply more academically worthy than addressing the systemic suffering of millions?
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