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Better optimize then for haircuts. How many haircuts can we trade for one death? Haircuts are so much more important that we should accept some number of deaths
by mnm1 6y ago
Better optimize then for haircuts. How many haircuts can we trade for one death? Haircuts are so much more important that we should accept some number of deaths so that people can get their haircuts. What's this number to you? Callousness doesn't even begin to address the stupidity of this argument.
- DuskStar 6y agoDepends on who's dying, but somewhere between 10k and 500k haircuts per death. (A teenager or child is "worth" more than someone in a nursing home - and if you go by life expectancy, it's more than 50x higher) So 10k @$20/haircut is $200k, near the top of the statistical value of a year of life. (And the life expectancy of someone entering a nursing home in the US is less than a year) 500k @$20/haircut is $10m, or at the top end of what federal agencies put as the value of a life in the US. At either conversion rate opening up for haircuts alone is remarkably silly.
- caseysoftware 6y agoIf you think the debate is about haircuts, I'd wager you have a work from home friendly job with direct deposit where you don't have to decide between "staying home & going broke" vs "working & feeding my family."
- mnm1 6y agoI'd wager you don't get sarcasm. I'd also wager the people who are out of work aren't protesting with signs demanding haircuts. Then again, I might lose this second wager if these protestors are that stupid, dumber than even I previously thought.