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Consumerism can really drive people into doing ridiculous things!

What the ****?!? That is the most stupid I ever heard! You should get much more money for a kidney! ^^
But still, selling a kidney for an Ipad 2? I cannot believe to what our society has fallen to...
 
When a country has a population of 1.3 billion, it's bound to have at least one idiot. It's not that surprising really from a statistical perspective :x
 
What's so special about this? People have been selling their bodies since ancient times.

But yeah, it's his own fault. I think I couldn't help to be amused if he somehow ends up dying from it.
 
I think it's actually quite sad that iPads are being sold to people who can't really afford them, but still feel like they should have them for the status or whatever. I mean, China needs a lot of things more than it needs iPads.

But on the topic of consumerism this is what we all do just on a more extreme scale. We are living in a material world.
 
Team Fail said:
Let me start off by disproving the following theory.

"There is an app for everything."

Especially in this case. It shows how greedy people can be. But this is also an example of the lemming effect, because if someone has it, then someone else is bound and determined to get it as well. In this case, someone sells a VITAL BODY ORGAN for a material product that could go on sale who knows when. This also reminds me of when the PS3 came out. In a city 5 hours away from me, someone was shot waiting in line for the PS3. Over an inanimate object that only provides entertainment for so long.

When you really think about it, there are a lot of people in this world that do not have their priorities straight. This is a prime example.

There isn't an app for kidneys. That's for sure.
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He better hope that come up with an app for a new kidney soon.
 
That's so stupid. He isn't even the legal age to drink or do anything of that sort in most countries (not too sure about China tbh) yet he decides his kidney doesn't matter to him? Thank God people have two kidneys, but still. Too bad he didn't decide to sell a kidney to a friend that needed it, since hey that would've been noble reasoning and instead of the English-speaking countries questioning China's morality, we'd all be praising him for a good deed, oh well. Besides, there's a lot of other ways to make money - maybe, just maybe, go to an English country, get a degree there, head back to China and be employable, meaning he'd be able to afford all the iPad's he would ever want. Sure it's not that easy, but if he wants something that badly, it'd have been a much safer option.
 
I wouldn't do it for an Apple product (you couldn't pay me to use an Apple product), but I might do it for something else. The price would have to be a few hundred thousand dollars, though. You only need one kidney anyway. The risk is (as happened to him) getting complications from not being operated on by a medical professional.

If it's what he wanted to do, though, so be it.
 
Speaking as someone who just went out and bought an iPhone 4 this morning, I do see this kid's obsession with Apple products as a defense. However, I don't see this so much as a sad effect of consumerism as I do a sad lacking of common sense. A vital organ. Really, kid? Kids are so stupid.

Team Fail said:
Let me start off by disproving the following theory.

"There is an app for everything."
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I have never laughed so hard in my life.
 
height of stupidity

Apparently addiction to every latest advanced consumer product that comes out is not limited to America, but it's spread all over the world! People are doing the stupidest things to get what they want! No wonder the world economy is skating on thin ice (despite claims from the media that the economy is doing so good).
Every few months it seems there is a new version of a cell phone that everybody has to go out and get. Same with computers, and televisions, too.
No wonder society has gone insane! Must be what happens when the end is near...

In a city 5 hours away from me, someone was shot waiting in line for the PS3. Over an inanimate object that only provides entertainment for so long.
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Reminds me of an incident a few years back on Black Friday where people were waiting to get into a Wal-Mart, and they trampled a employee to death.
 
This mistake this man made was not selling his kidney for money, but selling his kidney for an iPad2.
 
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