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In another, more macabre calculus: 1.6 billion hours per year = 182648 person years per year Divided by forty (perhaps the average number of years of life ex
by DaniFong 15y ago
In another, more macabre calculus:
1.6 billion hours per year
= 182648 person years per year
Divided by forty (perhaps the average number of years of life expectancy remaining for fliers)
= 4566 remaining lifetimes stolen
= equivalent of 4566 deaths
which is more deaths than caused by 9/11. Every year.
- artursapek 15y agoThat's a ridiculous way to look at it.
- moultano 15y agoWhy? What common units would you convert it to?
- DaniFong 15y agoOut of genuine curiosity, why is it ridiculous? Stolen time is stolen time, no?
- artursapek 15y agoAll you do your entire life is what you're confined to doing on an iPad in an airplane? It's not that huge of a loss. You're not dead for half an hour on each flight.
- morsch 15y agoNo, but I sometimes wish I was dead for just that half an hour.
- DaniFong 15y agoHaha, you make a good point. Nonetheless, flying could be an amazing experience. But fliers are some of the least happy people because they are treated either like criminas, children, or cattle. If the time isn't quite stolen, it is at least spoiled.
- artursapek 15y agoAll I can say is to watch Louis CK's rant about how everything is amazing and nobody's happy. I fly several times a year and I honestly enjoy it. People who complain about their flying experience need thicker skin and more problems in their lives.
- lancewiggs 15y agoThe economic term is deadweight loss. Not so ridiculous, as that is product capacity lost to society.
- AshleysBrain 15y agoIf 1 billion people take a 20 minute nap every day... that's equal to 38,000 years wasted time every day... which is about 20 lifetimes every HOUR! OMFG nobody should nap!
- 16BitTons 15y agoExcept without sleep, we all die. The question before us is this: without TSA, do we all die?
- duck 15y agoThey said nap, not sleep. Dying from a 20 minute nap is pretty unlikely.
- code_duck 15y agoHow about 'the government should not mandate that everyone must nap'... does that sound reasonable?