VS Code is arguably similarly dominant. By Stack Overflow survey, it’s around 75% of the IDE market (source https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/06/28/so-2023.aspx) while Chrome seems around 65%. It’s a bit apples to oranges because the IDE survey lets you select multiple items, but it’s a very widely used tool. Google and Microsoft both have a lot of closed source crap, and they both copy everything you do to the NSA.

VS Codium exists which takes everything Microsoft out of open source VS Code. But anyway, fuck Google and MS.

Yo mama so ugly…

Yes, and notably, this isn’t about regular blood donation. Plasma donation specifically is a time consuming process, taking 1-2 hours. I don’t think not compensating regular blood donors results in the same kind of shortage.

The status quo is dependence on paid plasma, we import about 80% of our plasma from the US, because you don’t get enough donors when you don’t compensate them. Everyone else in the donation chain gets compensated (phlebotomists, doctors, nurses, receptionist…), and there’s nothing wrong with compensating the donor as well.