What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Rum » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:51 pm

Today everyone knows the price of things but not the value.

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:58 pm

Too philosophical for these thoughtless modern days, you are.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Jason » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:33 pm

$1.4 million is apparently what your average American earns in a lifetime.

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:41 pm

meaning that autochtonous people in 3rd world countries are literally worth a dime a dozen?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Jason » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:50 pm

Not at all.

We can harvest their organs and sell the offal. :tea:

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Jason » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:52 pm

Adopting Marx's theory of value, the value of each person is equal to the sum of the labour that has gone into producing them thus far.

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:54 pm

that's horrid to calculate.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Jason » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:58 pm

Definitely. I've also always wondered if Marx's value theory didn't forget about recursion - that is marxists don't seem to account for value of each person that contributed labour in the work of producing another worker. It seems to me that each successive generation must add to the total value of the individual so that as more generations pass each one is more valuable than the last.

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by tattuchu » Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:05 pm

About tree-fiddy :tea:
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Post by pErvinalia » Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:34 pm

Pipty cents.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:46 pm

Twelfty grand per year of life * 8.6, which makes me worth about 74,304,000.


That's in Belarus Rubles btw. :tea:
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jul 22, 2018 12:01 am

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by laklak » Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:13 am

Depends on the human.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jul 22, 2018 9:43 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:46 pm
Twelfty grand per year of life * 8.6, which makes me worth about 74,304,000.


That's in Belarus Rubles btw. :tea:
Or Venezuelan Bolivar.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Animavore » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:41 pm

Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.

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