Should I Sell My Organs to Stack More Sats?

I recently learned that the going rate for a kidney is $262,000, and if you were to liquidate your entire body it would net a cool $45 million. Upload your consciousness to the metaverse before doing so, of course.

That means most of us are carrying non-productive assets that could be traded for, well, a different non-productive asset — But one that is going to the moon.

There’s a huge societal benefit as well. This market is clearly suffering from illiquidity:

There’s something off-putting about selling an internal organ. It feels repugnant in the same way that selling a family heirloom feels repugnant, in that a family heirloom isn’t really yours to sell. Like, you never actually own a family heirloom. You merely look after it for the next generation.

It’s the same idea with bodily parts, except the intergenerational wealth moves in reverse. The main reason anyone has children is to create a sort of organ bank, little repositories of flesh and blood with high likelihood of sharing a compatible blood type. You never actually own your liver. You merely look after it until Grandpa has late-stage cirrhosis.

Whether it be a Patek Philippe watch or spare lung or a bitcoin, the objective is the same. If it feels gross to sell a kidney for sats, that’s because you haven’t convinced yourself of Bitcoin’s superiority as a store of value.

This is not investment advice.

This is:

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