This just saddens me.... the entire situation.
I can understand wanting something like that really bad, I'm a game junkie that has concerns for the future due to being permanantly disabled (which is part of the whole reason why). My parents won't work forever, and I only managed to work 10 years (lame social security) with prices and everything else going through the roof. I have all kinds of problems, with goverment health coverage in danger of being cut every minute.... and really I can see myself at sixty living under a bridge, or being "slow killed" in a hospital that doesn't want to support me, or all kinds of other situations... never mind being able to keep myself occupied.
I'm in the US, and can't imagine what it must be like in China. The kid is young and stupid to do something like that. He's going to be facing even worse concerns about the future than me doubtlessly now, and on top of that I can't help but wonder at a society where a kid has to scrape THAT much to get a bloody Ipad (expensive yes, but I wouldn't think "selling a kidney" expensive for a young guy who can work). It also makes me somewhat angry to hear people going off about materialism when the society is such a wreck that such a thing is that far out of reach for someone who can apparently work.
I mean in the US the typical story is more like "Kid wants an Ipad, parents can't afford one, kid runs a few drug packages after school for some extra cash, buys one, parents freak especially when the police come calling". That's messed up enough, but I can't get my mind around selling an organ.
