BBC:

A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report.

The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.

The story only came to light after the teenager's mother became suspicious.

The case highlights China's black market in organ trafficking. A scarcity of organ donors has led to a flourishing trade.

With prostitution, you loan the whole body. The whole body must be returned. A person gets to fuck a body—but not the person. There is only one person in prostitution. With organ trafficking, a part of the body is not loaned but sold. It is no longer yours. A part of you becomes a part of another person.

Capitalism is about enclosing what is held in common. Those who sell their organs are only realists. They have faced the cold logic of the market system. What is common becomes privatized. To get something on the market, you must have something that's marketable. Labor is not worth much these days. What are the other options? The kidney is enclosed. It becomes human capital.