Back in the day, deaths used to be openly priced into large projects.
Freakonomics did an interesting cost analysis on the value of human life using highway speeds vs productivity lost reducing those speeds to save lives.
Probably not overly accurate but it was alarmingly low.
I say! I'm filling out this dumpster quite nicely.
Back in the day, deaths used to be openly priced into large projects. Freakonomics did an interesting cost analysis on the value of human life using highway speeds vs productivity lost reducing those speeds to save lives. Probably not overly accurate but it was alarmingly low.