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This is an economics website--- shouldn't we be looking at the rate of selfie deaths? Over 1 million selfies are taken a day[0], so your death rate of dying wh
by civilian 11y ago
This is an economics website--- shouldn't we be looking at the rate of selfie deaths?
Over 1 million selfies are taken a day[0], so your death rate of dying while taking a selfie is 28deaths (in 2015) / 360million (seflies taken in 2015). Each selfie has a 1 in 12,857,142 chance of causing you death.
I'm pretty meh about it. These are people chasing glory and fame. Taking extreme selfies is probably safer than going to war or becoming a kingpin.
[0] http://stylecaster.com/beauty/selfies-infographic/ http://stylecaster.com/beauty/selfies-infographic/
- greydius 11y ago> Each selfie has a 1 in 12,857,142 chance of causing you death That's assuming every selfie has an equally likely chance of causing death, which I think we can all agree is not the case. But yeah, it's extremely difficult for me to muster any compassion for people that befall the horrible consequences of their own stupid decisions. To paraphrase the late, great Bill Hicks: "They were assholes. I'm glad they're dead."
- oh_sigh 11y agoBeing stupid doesn't make you an asshole. You sound like more of an asshole than any random person dying because they did something stupid.
- tamana 11y agoIt's not an economics website. It's an advertising website for a company that builds web scraper tools.