| "One standard method of making such a judgement [on the value of a human life] involves dicounted future earnings: the life of the individual is worth whatever the individual could have earned in the course of his or her working life, dicounted to present value. Therefore, by this method, a highly paid corporate executive's life is valued more highly than a housewife's or a college professor's. This mechanism for evaluating lives clearly conforms to the basic market valuation, but it can be clearly contested on humane grounds."
from: American Public Policy; Promise and Performance
I would hope so.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/15/act.scores.ap/index.html ...VS. http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/29/sat.scores.ap/index.html
How exactly did that happen? I mean I don't really care, just wondering. |
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