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You can't extrapolate from the price of a human spending 8 hours following limited corporate instructions to the value of their other 16 hours. First of all,
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
You can't extrapolate from the price of a human spending 8 hours following limited corporate instructions to the value of their other 16 hours.
First of all, value and price diverge for many reasons all the time. Secondly, most people on Earth produce more value after work than during, but that value is not fully priced or marketed yet (try as captains of industry may).
That used to be more true in the colonial powers as well (most value was not marketed, and stayed on homestead).
Humans do exist now whose labor is fully marketed but they are rare, mostly men, mostly rich. And even them, they still produce a lot of extra-economic value in most cases.
Many humans labor is entirely unpriced, like full-time parents or schoolteachers, social workers, artists, and other "passion professions.
Humans are invaluable.
- Dylan16807 8y ago> Humans are invaluable. They're really not, as far as managing risk goes. If you try to avoid assigning a value, you're going to do a worse job, and more people will probably die.