{"items": [{"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1340405733250", "service": "gp", "text": "This makes it sound to me like you do take the viewpoint I mentioned in the kidney donation thread. Please correct me if I'm wrong, though.", "timestamp": 1340405733}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1340406378717", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n\u00a0I'm not entirely sure what the viewpoint you mentioned there is.", "timestamp": 1340406378}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1340406462623", "service": "gp", "text": "\"Paying not to donate a kidney would be a one-shot game if you are obligated to meet a certain threshold of donation/giving/altruism per unit of time, and it doesn't matter how you do it. If the kidney is worth $400 (the correct amount isn't important for this), you can only save yourself that $400 once by donating a kidney instead. So you also only pay not to donate it once, although it's not clear to me when you do that (perhaps the payment is always considered part of your most recent donation).\"\n<br>\n<br>\nThat was part of my comment on that thread. It's the first sentence that's most relevant.", "timestamp": 1340406462}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1340406646289", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n\u00a0That seems reasonable to me. \u00a0Except that I find this easier to think about all in money-equivalents with \"donating a kidney\" counting as \"contributing $1.2K toward my share\". (I set myself a yearly amount to donate.)", "timestamp": 1340406646}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1340407802953", "service": "gp", "text": "Sure, I don't think that changes what I was saying too much.", "timestamp": 1340407802}]}