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Lifetime earnings? That is a very poor measure of a person's life.

• 90d 10d ago
  That's what happens when you live in a company, not a country.
  • alex43578 9d ago
    As compared to your implied view where any amount of money can appear from thin air, and law should be dictated exclusively by feelings?
• alex43578 9d ago
  It's an economic measure for what should be an economic question. Taking the statistical value of a human life as a baseline feels pretty fair, and adjusting it upwards for special circumstances seems reasonable. Are you arguing that because she was a nice person, she should be worth more? If she was a mean person, should she be worth less?
  • Henchman21 9d ago
    Why do you discount “pain and suffering” entirely?