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jeffbeeyesterday at 6:33 PM1 replyview on HN

$43 millon does not seem spectacularly high compensation for killing someone at the age of 22.


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dekhnyesterday at 6:42 PM

When my spouse worked in the area of determining "the value of an individual" (economically, not morally), it was computed as present value lifetime earnings: the cumulative income of the individual, converted back to its current value (using some sort of inflation model). IIRC, the PVLE averaged out to about $1-10M.

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