one of my jokes if we come up short in the financial planning of a project is that it is not a problem because we just sell a kidney. It was an idea i picked up from the illegal organ trade and the urban myths surrounding the subject (and we got 2 of them). It turns out to be legal in Iran to sell your kidney and the very serious economist suggests that more governments should allow the sale of kidneys to reduce the waiting list and the deaths of patients waiting for the essential blood scrubber.
it seems to be very successful in Iran although the street value of 2000-4000 USD is a bit disappointing. I always assumed 25K USD as the unit price; at 2K is going to take a lot of kidneys to close the gap on some of the projects and some teams weren't big enough to cover it and using 2 kidneys per team member is not good for the productivity..the cost of an office dialysis machine would have been prohibitive.
Since I am not one of the chromosomally challenged renting out my womb had never occurred to me and it turns out to be 6 times more dangerous than selling a kidney. The stuff you learn from the internet.
update by bert boerland: I closed the comments on this thread. After deleting some 100 comments of people who will sell their kidneys and their right arm, I decided to stop this nonsense!