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A few workarounds spring to mind:

1. Run challenge trials, but don't pay participants in money. Talk up the danger and risk, and publicize the heroism of the people who volunteer. Make a spectacle of it. If you ask for fifty heroes, is there any doubt that you'd get them?

2. Pay participants, but impose a minimum price they need to be paid in order to assuage people's squeamishness. That hypothetical guy in sub-Saharan Africa might be exploited at $10, but if he's getting paid $1,000,000 then he has practically won the lottery.

Either of these would be a big improvement over the status quo, where challenge trials aren't run at all and countless people die because of it.



Or 3. only recruit people who earn over X dollars.

Any of these are good solutions.




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