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What makes you think it's outlandish? It's certainly possible that it's a approximate monetary evaluation of the harm caused.

ferros 6y ago
I would have thought it would look something like this; We estimate it has caused 2,2T in damage and are seeking 100B. They are obviously very smart people and haven’t done it like this for a reason.
- Judgmentality 6y ago
  Why would you not seek the total cost of damages?
- happytoexplain 6y ago
  Why would the amount sought be less than the damages? Just because they can't practically recuperate it doesn't mean they shouldn't state that it is what they are owed.
loeg 6y ago
It's more than 10% 2018 US entire GDP.
- happytoexplain 6y ago
  In what way is that evidence that the harm caused can not sum to the number given? You could also figure out how tall it would be as a stack of ones, but it's supremely irrelevant.
  - lb1lf 6y ago
    -Just a tad shy of 150,000 miles tall, since you ask. (A dollar bill is .0043in thick, so unless imperial unit-challenged me messed up doing the conversions, it should be almost 2/3 of the way from Earth to The Moon.) This would be awfully inconvenient, though - if you use $100 bills instead, you'd have a still very inconvenient, but more manageable stack of 1,500 miles. More manageable still would be to just put the ones in a warehouse - they'd require 88M cubic feet of space, or a cube with sides of 445ft. It should fit nicely inside the Saturn V Vehicle Assembly Building.
- polotics 6y ago
  Sounds about right, the damage was done over many years, definitely impacted US GDP, 10 percent of just one year of GDP seems actually kind of small if you consider all the trickle down economics of 250000 deaths and countless addiction related crimes and broken lives.
- kube-system 6y ago
  The article discusses how the filing cites deaths back to 1999. Over 20 years that's closer to 0.5% of yearly GDP. > The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement. That totals $1.57T over 20 years and is purely economic, and doesn't include any value of human life. https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...

ferros 6y ago

I would have thought it would look something like this; We estimate it has caused 2,2T in damage and are seeking 100B. They are obviously very smart people and haven’t done it like this for a reason.

Judgmentality 6y ago
Why would you not seek the total cost of damages?
happytoexplain 6y ago
Why would the amount sought be less than the damages? Just because they can't practically recuperate it doesn't mean they shouldn't state that it is what they are owed.

loeg 6y ago

It's more than 10% 2018 US entire GDP.

happytoexplain 6y ago
In what way is that evidence that the harm caused can not sum to the number given? You could also figure out how tall it would be as a stack of ones, but it's supremely irrelevant.
- lb1lf 6y ago
  -Just a tad shy of 150,000 miles tall, since you ask. (A dollar bill is .0043in thick, so unless imperial unit-challenged me messed up doing the conversions, it should be almost 2/3 of the way from Earth to The Moon.) This would be awfully inconvenient, though - if you use $100 bills instead, you'd have a still very inconvenient, but more manageable stack of 1,500 miles. More manageable still would be to just put the ones in a warehouse - they'd require 88M cubic feet of space, or a cube with sides of 445ft. It should fit nicely inside the Saturn V Vehicle Assembly Building.
polotics 6y ago
Sounds about right, the damage was done over many years, definitely impacted US GDP, 10 percent of just one year of GDP seems actually kind of small if you consider all the trickle down economics of 250000 deaths and countless addiction related crimes and broken lives.
kube-system 6y ago
The article discusses how the filing cites deaths back to 1999. Over 20 years that's closer to 0.5% of yearly GDP. > The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement. That totals $1.57T over 20 years and is purely economic, and doesn't include any value of human life. https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...