Why people don`t get paid by donating their blood in Finland?

I had a coffee with my friends in a place called Varkauden portti just a while ago. They were friends that i had not seen for a while, so it was nice to chat and update the "info" about each others lifes.

Conversation leaded to the blood donation when i told them about my last autumn. At the Team Academy, where I´m studying, were a day organized by Finlands Red Cross. It was kind of contest about which team will get biggest total amount of donations from the other companies for the Red Cross. Prize was that the winner team could go to the some Red Cross place and donate their blood??! Not only they use us to collect money for them but also they collect our blood! haha! Nice competition.

Then conversation leaded to the fact that in the other countries they pay to you for donating your blood, but not in Finland. We assumed that if we got some money about our blood donations it wouldn´t feel as valuable as we would do it for free. The amount of donations would drop?

/Davis