Lifetime earnings? That is a very poor measure of a person's life.

90d 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's what happens when you live in a company, not a country.

	▲	alex43578 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As compared to your implied view where any amount of money can appear from thin air, and law should be dictated exclusively by feelings?

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alex43578 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's an economic measure for what should be an economic question. Taking the statistical value of a human life as a baseline feels pretty fair, and adjusting it upwards for special circumstances seems reasonable.

Are you arguing that because she was a nice person, she should be worth more? If she was a mean person, should she be worth less?