How many different ways can you put value on human life?

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What are all the different ways you can value a human life?Lets use 137 pounds as an average.

Examples:

  • (World population) / (Money in the world)
  • (Worth in meat)
  • (Net worth of a single person)
  • (Price of each element in a human)
  • (Average kidnapping ransom) :arrow_left:(which probably deserves its own page)
  • etc
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  • demanding speed bumps on every city street
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Amount you’d pay to avoid killing a person (in auto safety features. Or aircraft safety features. Or…)

Amount a court would order you to pay in liability costs for accidentally killing someone (e.g., in an auto accident).

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Human meat tastes most closely to chicken according to The Guardian.So 137 pounds of chicken should give us a strange estimate.I can get 5.7 pounds of chicken from walmart for 12.93.So 137/5.7=12ishx12.93$=310.03$ (correct my math)

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The first Guardian article I found is this one, which says human meat probably tastes closest to pork, not chicken. That’s what I’ve always understood, and that’s what the term “long pig” refers to. Pork seems to be roughly the same price as chicken though, so it doesn’t really affect the cost.

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Pricing gun - then you put them on the shelf.

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Minimum wage = $7.25/hour
A forty-hour work week for a year = 2080 hours
Average work life = 46 years

So a person earns at least $693,680 in a lifetime (US figures).

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In countries with slavery, there must be explicit prices for certain types of people i doubt it’s closely related to the weight of the people, though.

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I’m just talking about average weight of a person if your calculation involves weight.

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Oops.Sorry 'bout that.Good 'ol Firefox has it as a first result.It’s actually saying that unaccordingly to popular belief it does NOT taste like chicken.So…thank you for correcting me!

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I think it’s pretty clear that about 90% of 'em have negative value.

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I’ve read that the airline industry prices a human life at about $6 million. That is to say, if some new safety technology would save 100 passenger lives but cost over $600 million to implement, it wouldn’t be worth it.

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Not too many years ago, commercial auto insurance priced human life at about $2M. More for a high earning attractive young adult, less for an old retired person.

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$16.28 an hour in Washington State.

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Probably not the airline industry since they don’t make those decisions. The airline industry regulators (e.g. FAA in the USA) might well use such a number.

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Here’s how it was done for the victims of 9/11.

There was a 2020 movie about the process starring Michael Keaton. (I haven’t watched it yet.)

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Cost of production.

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Value to whom?

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I’ll call my insurance guy in the morning…
Let you know.