What is a life worth?

Mr. Chen

Redshirt
Aug 22, 2012
93
3
8
Trump just said “we would have lost 2M people if we hadn’t done anything. Proves why I needed to spend 2T dollars this week.”
Is my math bad or is that about 1M per person?

Wonder how many people would throw their own granny under a bus for 1M?
 

SirBarksalot

Junior
May 28, 2007
2,980
280
83
Trump just said “we would have lost 2M people if we hadn’t done anything. Proves why I needed to spend 2T dollars this week.”
Is my math bad or is that about 1M per person?

Wonder how many people would throw their own granny under a bus for 1M?
My Granny was worth a million, I’d give yours $110k
 

johnson86-1

All-Conference
Aug 22, 2012
14,373
4,875
113
Trump just said “we would have lost 2M people if we hadn’t done anything. Proves why I needed to spend 2T dollars this week.”
Is my math bad or is that about 1M per person?

Wonder how many people would throw their own granny under a bus for 1M?

$1.5M is on the low end of calculations for the value of a statistical life. So spending $1M per life saved would I guess generally be considered good value.
 

ronpolk

All-Conference
May 6, 2009
9,166
4,774
113
Trump just said “we would have lost 2M people if we hadn’t done anything. Proves why I needed to spend 2T dollars this week.”
Is my math bad or is that about 1M per person?

Wonder how many people would throw their own granny under a bus for 1M?

I’m betting you’d spend $1 million to save your life.