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[CW: dead children] $200K is not enough of a deterrent to stop them from hiring children. (hexbear.net)

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The fine should be the total labour produce that the average worker would have created over the remaining years of their working life and every single penny of it should go to the family.

$200k is pathetic, and how much of that goes to the family? The state is responsible for the negligence that allowed this workplace to do this. The state doesn't deserve jack shit.

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

This is not the price of a human life as you define it, but American government agencies consider the price of a human life to be worth $10M, which is way more than the $200k fine.

GONZALEZ: These are pre-coronavirus numbers. But to convince workers to take this risk, companies have to pay them an extra $400 a year - each of them. So if I accept $400 to take a 1 in 25,000 chance of dying at work, I have revealed, essentially, a value that I put on my own life. And if the group of 25,000 people get $400 each, that's $10 million.

So that is today's value of life - $10 million.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life