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** So defaulting on your organ loan for 90 days gets the Repo Man sent after you, who will fatally retreive GeneCo's property. So it never occurred to the genuises at GeneCo's finance department that hitting the customer with massive penalty fees and interest rate hikes would be a more cut-throat response to consumer delinquency, leveraging an asset on the books into one two or three times the value. Dead customers don't pay, after all, and they're out the cost of the surgery and repossession costs every time they kill a customer.
** The people we see being killed by the Repo Men have already been taken for every penny they have and have nothing to offer the company but their bodies. Gene Co's business plan saves the company a fortune in litigation costs going after deadbeats in court and insures maximum profit potential by [[Incredibly Lame Pun|allowing their accountants to bleed the customers dry before sending in the Repo Men to bleed their customers dry]].
** Every life has a value. That's not a wishy-washy way of saying that human life is sacred or crap like that; in economics, every living person has what is known as their [
** Unless either the customer's organ value being resold dips below the life economic value or the value in scaring the customers to pay up. After all a single Repoman working can only do so many Repo's, but the mere threat would be very effective against the rest. Especially if Organ loans are like nearly all other loans and discharagable in bankruptcy. (Of course the only non-dischargable loan is student loans which the government can jail you if you refuse to pay).
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