Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for December 24, 2019
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Transcript:
Normal Person You cannot put a value on the life of a child. Economist You cannot put a value on the life of a child! You must include error bars of +/-50 dollars!
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Let’s call Paul Krugman for his opinion on this.
Ida No almost 5 years ago
Check any insurance company. Flat rate – $10,000. Minus fees and filing costs.
Qiset almost 5 years ago
Isn’t it around a quarter of a million to raise one to eighteen?
syzygy47 almost 5 years ago
For a fiscal conservative, an unborn child is priceless and afterwards a liability. Except their own snowflakes of course.
flying spaghetti monster almost 5 years ago
I though it was going to continue with a chemist giving the raw cost of material, possibly a hospital manager giving how much they can make transplanting organs.
tims145 almost 5 years ago
Actuaries and medical insurance companies: We have thick books of exhaustive tables specifying the values of childrens’ lives. However, we can’t tell you the value of the life of any specific child.