# Suggestions for Specific Demands for Occupy Wall Street

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-specific-demands-for-occupy-wall-street/598427>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 3, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-specific-demands-for-occupy-wall-street/598427 "2011-10-03T13:13:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cyclone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Cyclone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyclone)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-specific-demands-for-occupy-wall-street/598427/222 "2011-10-23T02:23:02Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> You would have been a Tory in the American Revolution. “But who will replace the King? The Americans have not nominated a King, there is no point in revolting until you have a new King and aristocracy ready to take the reins!”

You need to research Tories during the American Revolution. Did you know that when the colonies won that war, 20% of the Tories, (British loyalists) left the United States, but 80% assimilated?

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**Author:** ![Cyclone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Cyclone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyclone)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-specific-demands-for-occupy-wall-street/598427/223 "2011-10-24T00:35:30Z")

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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-specific-demands-for-occupy-wall-street/598427/224 "2011-10-27T04:11:11Z")

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Suggestion:

Consider some figures from, [“What’s a life worth?”:](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulation.html?pagewanted=all)

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> The Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a life at $9.1 million last year in proposing tighter restrictions on air pollution.

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> The Food and Drug Administration declared that life was worth $7.9 million last year, up from $5 million in 2008, in proposing warning labels on cigarette packages featuring images of cancer victims.

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> The Transportation Department has used values of around $6 million

Various sources have placed a dollar value on a human life at something a little less than $10m. Expressed as a number of human-life-worth equivalents (so corporate persons may understand), how many casualties were inflicted on the world’s economy by grossly negligent or knowingly criminal Wall Street et al. behavior?

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