What is a life worth?

[Mr. Chen]

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?

 

[PineGroveBully]

Don’t know about granny but a million might persuade me to throw a SPS’er or two under the bus

 

[SirBarksalot]

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]

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]

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.