Chinese man who sold kidney for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 in 2011 is now bedridden for life

[Crunchy Dragon]

Stuff like this...I don't really know how to react to it.

 

I mean on one hand you've got this:

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Mr. Wang allegedly sought the new iPhone in order to show off to his friends.

Which is a bad reason on its own to get rid of any organ. Number one, you shouldn't care that much about what your friends think of you. If they care that much about what you own, then they're not good friends. Period.

 

And on the other hand, you've got this:

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Wang said: “At the time, I wanted to buy an iPad2, but I didn’t have any money.”

I'm pretty sure most of the world's population has been here. If you don't have it, you don't have it and that's that. There's been a whole host of things that I've wanted in my lifetime, but I would never consider any of my organs less valuable than that.

 

You'll get many, many chances to own material items but you only have one life.

[Tristerin]

Prime example of:

 

MAKING THE BED YOU SLEEP IN (now you are stuck there).

[Worstcaster]

Stupid should hurt.

[Andreas Lilja]

1 hour ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I mean on one hand you've got this:

Which is a bad reason on its own to get rid of any organ. Number one, you shouldn't care that much about what your friends think of you. If they care that much about what you own, then they're not good friends. Period.

Showing off is a big part of Chinese society. Either that or they'more honest about it. 

 

[williamcll]

1 hour ago, Arokhantos said:

Is that ipad even worth a kidney still ?

Back then an iphone 4 could be sold as much as as a 512GB iphone Xs max.

[D13H4RD]

6 hours ago, Arokhantos said:

Is that ipad even worth a kidney still ?

Nope. I still have an iPad 2 and that thing isn't worth much on the second hand market 

[Techstorm970]

On 1/17/2019 at 4:59 AM, Sypran said:

a ham sandwich with a pickle on the side - the pickle is VERY important

Is this a Picklerick reference?

[DeScruff]

2 hours ago, Techstorm970 said:

Is this a Picklerick reference?

No, I forget where I got it exactly, but both my dad and I say that all the time.
I would say Spongebob since that does have a "You forgot the pickles!" line... But my dad never watched that show, and that doesn't fit the 'on the side' thing.

[Murasaki]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mLjKI968g

no embed? ok.

[xmj]

In China, this person is called "stupid"

[zassou]

On 1/18/2019 at 9:03 AM, Raskolnikov said:

Showing off is a big part of Chinese society. Either that or they'more honest about it. 

 

the chinese people i met are quite materialistic, even those pretend don't care about things. they love to compare, themselves to others, their child to others. someone graduated from college, got a work, and a mercedes for that.