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From: wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Escape tower for shuttle orbiter?
Message-ID: <1156@utcs.uucp>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 23:06:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 23:06:39 1986
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Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner)
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Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX
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Keywords: life vs megabucks
Summary: 


I'm not sure I liked the approach, but a recent issue of FORTUNE
came up with several ways of assessing the value of life.
It was phrased in terms of how much people value their own lives,
i.e. how much people will protect themselvesby using protective or
safety gear.

I think the number they came up with was about one million $ U.S.
per person with a very high variance.  Sorry, I don't have the article
here to check.

Michael Wagner (wagner@utcs)