value of a life
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- ukit
6.9 million dollars.
Very interesting. I didn't realize the government assigned value to such things.
- jfletcher0
seems expensive
- ukit0
Well, in fairness, it's going down fast.
- ********0
I am sure that these lowered numbers has more to do with the cost of life insurance then anything else. Our government has become one large corporation for corporations.
- acescence0
i can buy 12,000 hatian slave children for that much bread
- ukit0
When you read the explanation, it kind of makes sense:
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
Consider, for example, a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will prevent 2,500 deaths. At $7.8 million per person (the old figure), the lifesaving benefits outweigh the costs. But at $6.9 million per person, the rule costs more than the lives it saves, so it may not be adopted.
- so definitely try and live near important people._salisae_
- flashbender0
ISn't the human body worth like $126 when reduced to its chemical composition? I thought I read that somewhere
- is that by the hour?lambsy
- creamcicle position?Peter
- mmmmm creamsiclesflashbender
- ********0
What does education/citizenship do to the value?
- PIITB0
whoooo im worth 6.9 million, im rich!
*goes out and buys 3 iphones.
- designbot0
priceless....though seeing someone try to put a dollar ammount on it doesn't suprise me.
- Carl_Weathers0
"Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling."
It happens in big companies all the time. Human life is sometimes economically worth less than a recall of products etc. Enter the famous Ford Pinto non-recall. Explained... http://www.motherjones.com/news/…