EWOT Goggles - 11/6

This week in recitation, we talked about the illegitimacy of today's kidney transplant system and we identified poor trade techniques that directly contribute to this problem. For example, meddlesome preferences disallow any "underground" kidney exchanges to become standard protocol because of the so-called moral issues that are associated with it. Apparently people think it's wrong for fair and necessary exchanges to happen without the watchful eye from the government, even though if these same exchanges were made under today's system, they would be MUCH less efficient. So why doesn't this policy change? Why do people who are desperate for a new kidney have to wait years before they can actually get one when they can do the same thing faster and at a lower price when done "underground"? If we can buy food and other necessities today through markets, why can't we purchase a vital organ that will do the most important thing of all: sustain life (The Unbroken Window)?