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>multimillion or billion dollar catastrophes while the lowest classes get life sentences for ruining a single life. Is the implication here that causing economic harm is the same as murder?
If you think of money as labor and say there are 2000 work hours in a year, then at $10/hour a $1 million waste of money is wasting 500 work-years of human life. 2000 hours/(365 days * 24 hours) = 22%, so that is 500 * 0.22 = 114 lives wasted on a fruitless project. If a wasteful project is government, then you have the additional complication that the government ultimately uses police and SWAT teams to enforce the t…
I think you made a math error there. Instead 500 work-years should equate to about 12 lifetimes (most people's working life is about 40 years)