Take the wealthiest top 10,000 Americans out of the equation, and what’s the value of a statistical life in the US?
$10M seems to be a weird number in my mind.
Edit: Well that was a fascinating rabbit hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#:~:text=In%20W....
They are much less likely to be the recipient of all the money spent on entitlements, no? A giant bucket of money is spent on regular Americans.
[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
What's the value provided to citizens by spending 67B on health in the USA in terms of value provided? 10B in a country where prices are not the result of insurance companies colluding with the government?
> Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.
I don't see the point in hypotheticals. You're restating the politics you've absorbed over years of consuming a certain slant of media. There's no point in that, and no point in me doing the same.