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I enjoy your thorough lack of strong emotions, and I agree that these drafts are special in that they are not obviously intended to harm anyone who isn't WASP.
by matt4077 9y ago
I enjoy your thorough lack of strong emotions, and I agree that these drafts are special in that they are not obviously intended to harm anyone who isn't WASP.
But the opportunity costs of this futile exercise in trickle-down would seem to make this one of the worse policies from a utilitarian perspective.
$1.5 Trillion dollars (the self-imposed cost limit of the tax plan) divided by $40,000 (what givewell.org estimates to be the marginal cost of saving a life) = 37,000,000 lives.
That's obviously calculation, because those marginal costs would start to rise after the low-hanging fruits are picked, and you may want to think of some other ideas that could be realized with that sum.
But even if I'm off by an order of magnitude...wow.