Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645

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[@toast6494]

"How much is the ransom?" "$10,041,645 and 1 cent" "Sorry sir we can't save you"

[@tridzfr]

🤣

[@BurrritoYT]

lol

[@sergiowinter5383]

"I'm not sure about that cost, I will call a specialist to evaluate the situation first, do you agree?" - Rick from Hostage Stars

[@wren_.]

step 1. kidnap someone. step 2. ask the US government for 10,041,644 dollars in ransom. step 3. profit.

[@SecureHandle]

@@wren_.step 4. Live a life where you can’t even spend any of the money because you have to hide from the government

[@lewismassie]

I came here to make a "a non-American is valued $0" joke but Sam beat me to it

[@gray3508]

same

[@gooner4lyf]

Intellectuals always know the truth 😂

[@vitaminluke5597]

One could argue that the US government actually values most of its citizens at $0 given how it treats them, and the $10million figure is just the average being inflated by how incredibly high the government values the lives of the wealthy.

[@DZ477]

@@vitaminluke5597 You probably lived in America all your life and have no idea what other parts of the world are like.

[@vitaminluke5597]

@@DZ477 I lived in Germany for one year (and not in some undergrad study abroad program mind you). I always felt like a foreigner, I admit, but it was clear that they German government generally takes better care of its citizens than the USA does, despite it also being a capitalist country of the global north. Best not to assume stuff about strangers on the internet ;)

[@pilcrow1546]

As a professional Hostage Taker, this video was extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@circuit10]

Isn’t the word for that a kidnapper?

[@trollinape2697]

@@circuit10 that sounds illegal and unprofessional, gotta sound real good to make a successful business

[@kj-ys7xi]

@@trollinape2697 daycarr

[@kj-ys7xi]

@@trollinape2697 daycare

[@bouncingseal8579]

FBI OPEN UP

[@RealEngineering]

Cracks me up every time you use that picture with a fucking hawk on my head 😂

[@giraffeman326]

Only 28 likes?

[@tarrare337]

XD

[@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION]

Same 😆

[@Joshfarmpig]

a fucking hawk

[@uzidayo]

@@giraffeman326 only

[@TheMajorStranger]

"Some nerd who just makes videos about planes" Pot meet kettle.

[@f1shyspace]

Lol

[@Minifigure17]

Lmao holy shit

[@npgabriel]

HAI doesn’t make videos about planes, that’s Wendover Productions.

[@filipe2338]

@@npgabriel Same same, but different, but still the same

[@JimmyJonJillakers]

no, HAI does bricks

[@thomaswhite8251]

Wendover Productions now frantically calculating how many air and sea freight miles the human life is worth

[@AxxLAfriku]

🚨🚨🚨 AAAAAAHHHHH!!! 🚨🚨🚨 school is sooooo boring i am in 8th grate and its so boring i am having sucess on youtube so i think i will drop out of school. i dont have friends so i need your opinon tom

[@sq7972]

@@AxxLAfriku no. fucking go to school. just because you're now good at youtube doesn't mean you'll stay like that forever

[@andrewzhang8512]

@@sq7972 hes not good at youtube either

[@insertname717]

@@andrewzhang8512 and he's not in 8th grade

[@ishaand92]

@@insertname717 *8th grate

[@xBlueWolf]

I'm worth a few pennies, pocket lint, and maybe a quarter pounder with cheese, pickles, and ketchup.

[@aidanw9378]

Nah bro you're worth at least two quarter pounders

[@TinyBearTim]

Hold up quarter pounder with CHEESE? Bit pricey if you ask me

[@adamrymer4909]

Jokes on you, I'm not even worth pocket lint....... wait

[@plplplplplpl7336]

Can I have the quarter pounder?

[@nicolew672]

I'm not even worth the ketchup, allergic to tomatoes 😔

[@superflytnt]

My mom says I’m priceless. My ex says I’m worthless. Go figure.

[@sirBrouwer]

well 0 is both priceless and has no value.

[@nucleargoofball8043]

You're non-fungible, Seth. Just because one person doesn't think you're valuable doesn't mean you're worth the world to someone else.

[@MiguelAngel-fw4sk]

@@nucleargoofball8043 Acshually, life is just the kernel, what u refer as life is in fact GNU/Life.

[@nucleargoofball8043]

@@MiguelAngel-fw4sk We're quickly devolving into a metaphor I don't understand, I was just being nice

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

$10,041,645? ;)

[@CaptNSquared]

I've always heard this described as a measure of basically "when could we save more lives elsewhere." Like (I can't remember the exact numbers but) statistically adding seatbelts to all the school busses in the country would cost the government a shockingly large amount of money. Like tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars. But it would only save on average 1-2 kids a year. Sure saving 1-2 kids every years is great but there's probably a hundred thousand other ways the government could save WAY more kids each year with hundreds of billions of dollars. So they don't do it. HOWEVER, if you are in the first 2 seats of a school bus during a crash a seatbelt makes an incredibly large difference to your survival rate and that would save hundreds if not thousands of kids each year. And that's why nearly all American school busses have seatbelts only in the first 2 rows. (It might be all of them now, It's been a long time since I was on a bus). It was a large enough difference that the government wasn't sacrificing countless more lives that could have been saved had they put their money somewhere else

[@graham1034]

It's about the return on investment basically where the return is lives and the investment is government funding.

[@KillerBot5100]

They’re in all rows now, but from an economic standpoint they shouldn’t be there because nobody uses them. Oh nvm just realized 5 year olds and other young kids still use them nvm

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Jeremy Bentham has entered the chat

[@sparklee5044]

Like military

[@johnladuke6475]

I had always understood the lack of seatbelts to be a different practical matter. In a crash the number of lives saved and injuries prevented is, as noted above, statistically pretty small. Particularly considering that a schoolbus is usually the much more massive participant in the crash. They're also usually - though not always - travelling relatively slow, so that a passenger being completely ejected in a crash is less likely. However, if the bus rolls it becomes a whole other matter. Now you have dozens of children, terrified and possibly injured, strapped in their seats. In the panic many of them need assistance to get unbuckled, if the belt isn't jammed. And if the bus is upside down so that they're hanging from the belt, they'll fall and get hurt when they unbuckle. Counterintuitively, those severe crashes have a better survival rate when the kids are tossed around inside the bus. They go ragdoll and absorb the injuries better, and are free to make their escape from the bus once it comes to a rest. At least, that's what they always told me when I was riding the schoolbus.

[@juzoli]

First they used the lifetime average earnings to approximate the value of human life, which was about 800k. But using this low value, even many no-brainer safety measures were found to be uneconomic. Then they realized the human life worth more than just our job. We also have families, feelings etc… This $10million figure is proven to be very reasonable in real life risk-cost calculations.

[@notdolandark]

Some of the top medical jobs in the USA can make there companies 3 mil a year to as much as 10 mil if there really good it’s crazy that they make there company’s in one year what some peoples lives are worth lol

[@santiago6650]

@@notdolandark But they also save many lives, so their work is frankly invaluable

[@frontporchprojects4181]

@@santiago6650 Well according to this video we can actually value the lives they saved xD

[@juzoli]

@@marcosolo6491 Value of life doesn’t depend on age.

[@juzoli]

@@marcosolo6491 Start to think like that regarding large scale policies, and there will be terrible consequences. If you can save both the 18 and 99 year old, but you don’t save the older one because it is expensive and they would die in a few years anyway, then don’t expect that people will like or even respect you. But probably there will even be a lawsuit…

[@johnladuke6475]

I like the bit about the safety labels because of a safety video at my last job. It was the standard chemical-label video, just don't drink the stuff under the sink. But one of the staged "this could happen to you" sketches had a cleaning lady who for some reason kept her blue cleaning solution in a Gatorade bottle. She put it right next to her drink, blue Gatorade, both in unlabeled bottles. Unsurprisingly she died when she mixed up the Windex and the Gatorade. After the refresher training where that video debuted, we made sure to properly label all bottles. Blue Gatorade was labeled NOT WINDEX and all Windex was labeled THIS IS NOT GATORADE DO NOT DRINK. I like to think we saved lives.

[@tevinabeysekera6038]

Didn't realize the taste was little off after the first sip?

[@johnladuke6475]

@@tevinabeysekera6038 I mean if it doesn't clearly say that it's not for drinking, how am I to know? Maybe it's just a new flavour.

[@Jenny-tm3cm]

Honestly I’ve worked at some places where I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the people who work there kept all their cleaning supplies in Gatorade bottles 😂

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@tevinabeysekera6038 It's blue Gatorade, how good do you think it is supposed to taste?

[@gredangeo]

Wouldn't the smart idea is to not put cleaning solution in a gatorade bottle? Who in the right mind does that?

[@jbird4478]

Interestingly, we are willing to pay much more to save a human life year, then we are willing to pay for preventing the loss of a life year. That is, curative measures by governments consistently value a QALY higher than preventative measures do.

[@thomasmineo]

I guess that makes sense. Right? In general people place more importance on the current moment (dying person that needs to be cured) than long-term planning (deadly situation that needs to be prevented)

[@overloader7900]

@@thomasmineo its called short-sightedness.

[@gm2407]

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Looks like most people plan to fail.

[@QemeH]

@@overloader7900 It's also the human condition. As a species we are very good at improvising and finding solutions to immediately important short-term problems - but we have trouble understanding the complex multi-variability that comes with long-term problems. That's why we won't stop climate change, but we will find a way to live in submerged Holland...

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@overloader7900 It's called the government.

[@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042]

So in other words, you should never be able to sue for injury related damages of more than $10,041,645.

[@treeskers]

nah that isnt in today dollars. gotta adjust it for inflation again bro

[@Nico-od4yv]

No, because in the US there is the concept of punitive damages. You are not just paying for the damage caused, but the payment is also your punishment and can therefore be much higher than the actual concrete damage, depending on how wealthy you are.

[@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042]

@@Nico-od4yv Where I am from we don't have punitive damages and I personally think they are kind of stupid. So maybe in the US you can but not here.

[@mattstuff4177]

​@@treeskers yes it explicitly states that in the video

[@ichigocomeoutandfightmeyou6149]

If i was to kill American right now family of person i killed woud go to prison for not preventing me, I'll never value American life for more than 0-250$ lol.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the Vietnam War situation where a high-ranking Air Force pilot crash behind enemy lines, and the corresponding rescue effort caused the deaths of over a dozen Americans in the attempt to save him. I heard it led to a lot of changes in the military, but I thought having the military perspective on how viable human life is would be an interesting tangent for this channel.

[@adolfodef]

There were many other things MUCH more valuable than the "life" of that pilot. First thing: His recent knowledge (about the current tactics/missions going on for the war), then things more vague like the procedures & customs on the day_to_day of the military forces [that can give hints about their logistics]. Second: The HONOR of that branch of the Air Force (that is much more important than any individual life or group), because the demoralizing fact that there was a USA pilot captured by the enemy could compromise hundreds of soldiers & incite riots of thousands of civilians. Third: The political aspect of the entire operation ( Vietnam was already a "lost war" in the sense that any victory "by force alone" would be Pyrric ).

[@hedgehog3180]

Decisions about the worth of human life on a grand scale are something that armies have already had to make for ages and you especially see it in WWI and II where the sheer scale meant that officers were always making decisions in the knowledge that a massive amount of people would die and it ended up being often about weighing the risk vs reward. Some of the greatest disasters in those wars happened specifically because the commanding officers weren't willing to cut their loses and instead kept trying to win a specific battle because it was so hard to just admit that a city or army was just lost. The greatest Soviet disaster for example was when the Kiev salient was closed because the high command refused to fall back from the city before it was too late because of the sunk cost fallacy, no one could bear retreating from a million people city that they had been defending for weeks and instead they kept sending in more men. It tends to go against our internal morals because we generally value saving a life from danger over the people who might die trying to save that life but when we're talking on the scale of hundreds of thousands it quickly becomes reckless and indefensible to keep sacrificing lives to save a few.

[@Confron7a7ion7]

@@adolfodef Speaking as an Air Force vet You hit basically all the important points. On a national security level, we must KNOW WITHOUT DOUBT that rescue will be attempted. Otherwise we'd sing like birds after being captured. On a personal level we don't leave people behind because we'd all want to be rescued in that situation and we genuinely care about each other's safety. When the surviving members of the rescue team for this piolet was asked if they thought it was worth it they all said yes and that they'd do it again. The US military is the only job where when your boss says "we're family" it's actually true.

[@TheQWER9]

That’s why i like the army, attempt to rescue your own even if its extremely dangerous. Theyre like brothers

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I saw the movie with Gene Hackman. That Air Force general was quite irresponsible, putting all of his top secret and strategic information in range of enemy firepower. A less costly method of ensuring the safety of what was in his brain would have been for him to suicide, but that is not a palatable option to most people.

[@captaintrips8786]

Where can I trade in my life for $10,041,645?

[@meadRL]

Based

[@RialuCaos]

My family would never have to work again. Would be nice.

[@plant5875]

South korea

[@sergiowinter5383]

Trade half of my life for 5 million dollars would be nice

[@jimspy1001]

My dad wrote the book on recovery for wrongful death (in fact that's the title, Recovery for Wrongful Death) way back in the 60s. He showed how to calculate the value of a human life for litigation purposes.

[@bbd121]

Imagine if you put $10 000 000 in a large see-through piggy bank per person, and we made all the people considered in said piggy bank compete and fight over the money. I imagine you can even make a Netflix show around the premise. An award winning show, even. :D

[@Robbedem]

interestingly the value they assigned to life in that show is much lower. ;) Since it was 100 million won per player, which isn't even 100K $

[@samsunguser3148]

Calamari contest (i stole this joke)

[@gredangeo]

I see what you did there. ;)

[@grammarnazi4980]

Ah the Squid Games hit hard

[@jonharrison3114]

Does that mean the others die if they lose?😮

[@johnchessant3012]

Now you need to write a script that updates the video title every year to account for inflation!

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Maybe worth a scraping bot checking the figure somewhere rather than just inflation calculation in case humans turn out to be valuable Soylent sources. Or maybe a food shortage lowers it dramatically.I can only imagine the panic when the titles says something like '$5,400'. unfortunately

[@d4b]

I was more upset that the 2006-to-2021 calculation somehow expanded two significant figures to eight!

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@d4b Didn't notice that!

[@Menon9767]

This video's timing is perfect! We just discussed this topic during last week's Ethics class. I'm surprised the US values a life higher than the EU (3M)

[@alexanderwinter9171]

It's cause Americans make more money

[@linuszarrouk2004]

@@alexanderwinter9171 in the top 10 highest GDP per capita 6/10 countries are European while the us is number 10

[@ANONYMOUS__USER__]

@@linuszarrouk2004 On average the US has GDP 50% higher than Europe, and these 6/10 European nations on the top 10 list are all very small nations that usually have higher GDP's than larger one. The US is the last large nation on the top 10 list.

[@linuszarrouk2004]

@@ANONYMOUS__USER__ Europe is very mixed in terms of GDP some countries have very high GDP while there are also some struggling nations. The point of the EU is for more powerful nations to help poorer nations to develop

[@niceguy12_]

their lifes prob worth more because they will get a scratch sooner or later and give like bizzilion dolars in the hospital and eu has just free healthcare

[@damiensegers3555]

In most socialized health care systems (like Belgium), a cut-off for medication being refunded by the state is actually 40,000 Euros per QALY improvement over other options, so the US being willing to pay out 129,000 actually means they DO care a lot, for those on Medicaid at least.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

No. That isn't going to help when you're stuck in half a million dollars of medical debt!

[@johnl9236]

Damien, your smart my guy i will agree with a lot of people the us healthcare system has its problems but props for you for not saying undervaluing people is one of them in terms of how much they value a life people tend to just hate on US healthcare because it’s cool and progressive but this is one area where I think a lot of people don’t realize how the alternative actually works out props for giving America some credit where it’s deserved

[@koopertrooper3460]

@@johnl9236 Except that the monetary value of that number is only just the surface, an abstraction. The reason why QALY is lower in Europe is because healthcare costs are lower in general. If you remove the abstraction and instead measure it by the amount of stuff and effort you can buy with each monetary amount, you'd see that the U.S would do less to save your life because a lot of that money gets whisked away by high drug prices and administrative costs, as well as the general price inflation due to how the US healthcare market is structured. The U.S doesn't actually value life more than Europe, it's just that it's more expensive here to do so.

[@Winasaurus]

@@koopertrooper3460 What sort of scuffed logic is this? If we are basing the value of a life on what they're willing to pay for it, then it doesn't matter WHY they're willing to pay more for it, because that doesn't change the value. If I value an item at 10 million dollars and that's what I pay for it, it makes no sense to say "Actually you value it less you just pay more for it". No, I value it at $10 million. If I valued it less, I'd pay less. You're making the mistake of drawing end consumer costs in, when the preventative cost of death falls nearly entirely on the federal end, not the consumer end. The $10 million figure comes from FEMA, in case you don't know, they're not paying end consumer prices to prevent death. So what they value and pay is exactly what it is.

[@koopertrooper3460]

@@Winasaurus Why are you talking about FEMA when this conversation is clearly about about Medicaid?

[@rj5848]

I thought by reading the title as if you get rich enough to have a net worth of $10,041645 then they the government will worth you as something

[@kyle8688]

Quintuple that number and you're almost there

[@realperson5575]

i have a net worth of 10 dollars and 4 cents so thats great to hear

[@tabletgenesis3439]

"I have 9.7 million dollars." "Yeah, you're worth nothing."

[@shadyexists8406]

“Kris, get the banana”

[@micheal5117]

jesser

[@shadyexists8406]

@@micheal5117 potassium

[@VincentZalzal]

I came to the comments to say exactly that.

[@shadyexists8406]

@@VincentZalzal same hahaha

[@tyler1107]

It’s interesting that the way they determine it isn’t by some calculation, but by indirectly asking people how much they value their life monetarily.

[@andybrinegar8861]

“Some nerd who just makes videos about planes” Sam… you just described yourself

[@merlinthebikewizard4392]

That's the joke.....

[@wmeuse2375]

Wanna buy a brick?

[@lankyguythe3rd632]

@@wmeuse2375 what type?

[@wmeuse2375]

@@lankyguythe3rd632 not quite sure but I heard the half as interesting guy is selling them.

[@lankyguythe3rd632]

@@wmeuse2375 I heard that too. Really high quality apparently

[@downsidebrian]

Strange that all these economists and such weighed in on this and no one suggested the opportunity cost calculation. If $1 million spent elsewhere will save one life, and no lower-priority money can be found, then spending that $1 million to save a life in one instance is the same as spending it to save a life in any other. I mean, no parent wants to be told, "we had to take little Jimmy off life support because we ran out of money after paying the ransom for those 9 hostages," but no one can reasonably argue that weighing 9 lives against 1 would come out in favor of the one.

[@howardbaxter2514]

It’s a serious ethical conundrum we always have to deal with.

[@nosna9116]

Similar to the trolley problem

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Yeah. With the 6 trillion dollar example, you save one person while everyone else is thrown into poverty as the whole country's money is gone. So yeah...

[@JojOatXGME]

About “paying the ransom for those 9 hostages”: You also have to consider side effects. The more likely you are paying the ransom for hostages, the more you incentivize taking hostages, which might very well increase the risk of becoming a hostage for everyone.

[@jonharrison3114]

@@JojOatXGMEthat’s a good point

[@pvic6959]

im clearly overvalued then. no one would pay $10M for me

[@f1shyspace]

Idk man, this Nigerian guy told me if I can bring him 20 people he’ll give me 20mil, you are worth atleast 1mil

[@jonahstoehr3637]

@@f1shyspace Nigeria? I got an offer from China for $2mil a pop for "medical purposes". Too Soon?

[@vixster6977]

@@jonahstoehr3637 nah, you're next

[@sparklee5044]

Your organs are like worth 550,000$

[@DZ477]

The meaning is that if you were kidnapped in Africa for ransom, the US government could pay 10 million to bail you.

[@Gingerp3nguin]

An interesting look at this video from a slightly different side is the value of human life as it relates to the Department of Transportation . As an engineer for the DOT we must at look at areas on our roadways with high numbers of crashes/fatalities. Then decide if improvements would be necessary in order to save life. Think traffic lights vs a roundabout.

[@revcrussell]

You forgot the cost of radiation exposure and that the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed a model in their 2002 Safety Report Series 21. That came out to between a quarter million and several million.

[@bengoacher4455]

Holy shit, the building HAI targets at 0:37 is my office. I'm now scared, Sam I didn't mean it please don't shoot!!

[@sirBrouwer]

what would he shoot with? Bricks? Airplanes? Brian?

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Wait really? The better question is why does a stockfootage company have that video? Was this attack declassified recently by the CIA? I would lay-low for a while.

[@john_smith_john]

obvious lie

[@tcg1_qc]

@@DoABarrelRol1l you know, this could just be a stock footage of an aerial view of this area, but they added an overlay of a military drone Unless the original commenter says what city this is in, we could check if it's a true video

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

@@tcg1_qc Yeah probably but that's not as fun. It's still a concern that they added the target directly on op's claimed place of work. Unless the overlay always targets the same space on screen ie bottom right then someone had to animate the crosshair over that target- deliberately.

[@norbertk.5328]

"You can't put a price tag on life" everybody is priceless. The U.S. government:

[@lucystarlight8887]

One way to estimate the cost of a life, or at least part of a life, is to look at workman’s comp. The way this is calculated is also interesting. There are various techniques, such as estimating the amount of income you would lose by not being able to work, but one of the ways it was calculated was by literally asking people “How much money would we have to pay you to cut your leg off?”

[@carpemkarzi]

Nice..also +1000 for the nebula cut joke collection

[@CalgarGTX]

I'm not sure librarian is that risk free, they get on ladders a lot

[@kyirid]

Yeah. What if they grab a book and get possessed by a medieval spirit?

[@ace2856]

A Video two days in a row?! That’s new!

[@ilyakogan]

I loved the companion video! Liked it more than the main video :)

[@gamernist3050]

Man the jokes in this one are amazing, and that on top of an already interesting video!

[@albusdumbledore5875]

Interestingly enough if you multiply the value per year to the US healthcare system by the average life expectancy in the US you get almost exactly 10 million

[@Ingenius_]

Funny how the final value is very close to the value u named for a QALY times the avg US life expectancy.. $129.000*77.84221 = *title* and 78.79 = avg US life expectancy.. almost fits. Coincidence?

[@Flourish38]

Very good observation!

[@corro202]

Great video.

[@NeoChaawuu1]

Hey, this guy is funny and sounds educated. Subscribed.

[@BigFr0sty]

That's how he gets you!

[@WDCallahan]

You're new? Dude, you're in for a treat! Also, is it just me, or does he sounds like the guy over at the Wendover Productions channel?

[@blisteringstars]

@@WDCallahan nah bro wendover and hai 10.0% dont have the same narrators

[@hullukana214]

@@WDCallahan I wonder why he sounds like wendover productions guy. Could it possibly be that they are the exactly same guy.

[@aaroncousins4750]

Well you said on another video that he did a shit job at trying to be funny...

[@megb7715]

That number is actually uplifting to me. Much more than expected.

[@afatcatfromsweden]

Unofficially it’s valued at 1$ because that’s how much a politician would sell your life for.

[@mkirklions]

I thought you were kidding, but I looked up opensecrets top spenders list and the top 20 lobbyists spent less than 300M dollars this year on bribes/lobbying. On the bright side, if every American gave 1$ to politicians we could beat the American Medical Association(physician cartel).

[@govcorpwatch]

And "your" birth certificate is a bank note that amortizes that value FOR THE GOV'T PROFIT/USE... but is YOUR value they steal! Listen to CA Vital Records say for themselves that Birth Certificates are Bank Notes in this phone recording: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGaTeqSriryskM0 BE WARNED!!! #RedPill #BlackPill

[@Mike-ukr]

@@govcorpwatch it's a piece of paper

[@govcorpwatch]

@@Mike-ukr indeed, you are correct. it's a piece of paper.... and it's so much more than that too. See my channel for the recording of CA Vital Records saying b-certs are Bank Notes. What you don't know is hurting you.

[@vaopr1012]

@@mkirklions it’s even worse when you factor in that the $300 million didn’t go to just one politician, it went to the most influential 200 or so. Makes it more like half a cent per U.S. citizen for the professional politicians to sell you out.

[@fineoutside]

LOVE the Bills highlight during the superbowl ad time comment 😀😀 2:23

[@BJ-Hawk]

HAI: "You can't exchange person for money" Humat traffickers: Pikachu surprise face

[@spencercross1]

A nitpicky correction for your next corrections video: The Healthcare symbol is a rod with *one* snake wrapped around it (Rod of Asclepius) not *two* snakes (Caduceus), which symbolizes commerce.

[@nezzee]

I was expecting a tally of body parts from workers compensation, since they have a dollar amount for every body part lost essentially (plus total payout for death), which reaches into the millions. There is literally a dollar amount for how much of a finger you lost (and which one).

[@TomBirchy]

Good content

[@deniss2786]

One of the BEST videos here!

[@F2_CPB]

I'm surprised, no one is talking about Nebula ad at the end

[@jonasdatlas4668]

Sooo, is this about economics, insurance, bureaucracy, or all of the above?

[@thesecretgames]

I like the RuneScape money font for the video picture

[@urldroidsuperbot2139]

I liked how you admitted the US considers the life of non-US (and some US citizens like Awlaki) less than dirt.

[@CraftingTableMC]

amog

[@sirBrouwer]

but they still consider it to a point. I will take it.

[@shouryasanjeev9284]

@OwO spamming pig shit wherever you can doesn't change people's perceptions.

[@dillonvandergriff4124]

Not less than dirt, but more of a not my job kind of thing.

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

maybe you're worth a few lbs of fertilizer! 'Dirt' is fairly valuable. Not as valuable as (appropriately coarse/fine for cement)Sand of course but still worth something.

[@JamesD401]

As someone from Rhode Island I’m offended we didn’t get confused with New York’s Long Island like we usually do

[@rachelcookie321]

They’re different places?

[@cheesecakedoublepeanutbutt6511]

Honestly that's about 10 times higher than my guess lol

[@howardbaxter2514]

Agreed.

[@JMU365]

The movie 'Worth' on Netflix is about this. Great movie.

[@danielsuarez7474]

This was by far the best Nebula add I've seen.

[@ReaperUnreal]

How do you take the integral of the number of HAI episodes you've watched? There's no limits on the integral so the answer could be literally anything.

[@uss_04]

I once heard the human body, it’s chemicals only, is worth about $231 or some three digit figure. Can’t remember where I heard it though

[@sealeo5772]

You heard it from this video.

[@megb7715]

My skull might me worth more as some goth girl's home decor. It's all about marketing.

[@Th3Shrike]

1:41 real engineering, Wendover, mustard, the holy trinity of the nerds who just make random videos on planes

[@patrikkristensen2323]

Love how at 4:16 a stock footage guys is typing at his keyboard, but his screen is on a paused youtube video

[@carlramirez6339]

I've always thought that the human body was worth a bit more than $200 if you assume that its value is equal to an equivalent mass of meat.

[@NaderNabilart]

It's a relief to know that I'm worthless to both my government and the US government. These bytes I'm occupying on KZbin servers are worth more than me (as I'm using a rooted ad-free youtube, even if I saw the ads it won't influence me to go buy the product)

[@jolsm9726]

The add transitions was the funniest one hahahaha Didn't see it coming

[@trezenx]

Cool video as always but I would rather not know the price tag from the very beginning (and title)

[@audreyhill1200]

👆👆👆👆👆👆...

[@saumitrachakravarty]

2:53 Did you use the wrong symbol on purpose? The Cadeceus insignia with two serpents shown here denotes the god of trade and commerce which the US Army Medical Corps adopted by mistake. This mistake has been carried over since quite long now all over the world. The actual medical symbol that denotes healing is called the Rod of Asclepius which shows a single worm spiraling over a single stick. Then again, maybe it is consistent with the fact that the US healthcare system values commerce over healing! (Sam, I just gave you a free idea for another HAI episode. You're welcome!)

[@alexissey4023]

Good catch! I noticed that too.

[@juddotto3660]

As a hostage taker, this information is greatly appreciated.

[@drkclshr]

As a hostage I think I need help

[@dudono1744]

@@drkclshr if you could comment your hostage taker is bad

[@walterthecat2145]

I let him on his phone for a couple of minutes a day I’m not a monster

[@drkclshr]

@@dudono1744 yes he threatened to take my Minecraft, but he never said he would take my phone

[@dhirentekwani1831]

The jokes you cut from this video are priceless.

[@NeonAspect]

I love all the insults and jokes you say lol

[@anotherpersonontheweb5558]

The government values me at $10,041,645 but yet I can't even get my teeth treated with my insurance without the dentists trying to charge me thousands for a procedure

[@notthere9976]

You don’t need teeth to live 😎

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

Both facts confirm how valuable you are.

[@bbt305]

Real engineering is priceless and this channel is half as priceless! 💰

[@lancetheking7524]

2:01 The blackmarket: *are you sure about that*

[@williamdelaporte2341]

Is that background music new? Because I am very into it

[@seanm7445]

@1:36 The government wouldn’t give you dirt for that hostage, considering Brian isn’t an American citizen ;)

[@seanm7445]

Unless he actually has dual citizenship, in which case I apologise!

[@victorgaliano5409]

Nice video as always! From a doctor: keep in mind that this rod 02:51 is the caduceus (symbol of trade), not the rod of asclepius (symbol of medicine)!

[@insectbite1714]

OK Boomer

[@victorgaliano5409]

@@insectbite1714 I am 27 yo, enought to be more mannerly than you. Regards from Spain ;)

[@YukariAkiyama]

@@insectbite1714 okay boomer is old

[@DarthPlagueisTheStupid]

That super bowl joke was hilarious

[@meme-xn6wr]

2:23 two things; one, go bills. Two, Sam, are you projecting the bills make the super bowl? The clip is of the bills and you said super bowl. Go bills

[@timurylmaz6074]

How dare you insult real engineering like that😆

[@gabedarrett1301]

1:28 So you're saying I can hold someone hostage for a maximum amount of $10,041,644? I gotta try this out next time I'm broke

[@lemir04]

Good luck man

[@YHK_YT]

Why do I feel like I’ve seen you in a different video replying to a comment I wrote

[@___Tammy___]

Sam I'm still owed that t shirt I recommend the conplan 8888 video and still haven't gotten my tshirt

[@LethalBB]

The background music in this one is woeful

[@straightfacts4646]

The economists they have to hire to figure out how much a human life is worth is usually as costly as just putting the damn warning label on the product

[@ascott741]

Now that's a number I would play the squid game for!

[@eggsngritstn]

Nice Space Invaders background during the 1980s paragraph.

[@samuelspace101]

To be fair the original calculation of how much a life is worth by weather or not the military would tell you to land a plane is kinda inaccurate, first off pulling ejection is extremely dangerous and has a high death rate if you don’t die from ejection you have a higher chance of being permanently disabled, this is why you will be instantly dishonorably discharged for pulling ejected when not ordered to, it is MUCH safer to try to land the plane if it’s possible

[@dogf421]

thats... more than im probably worth. makes me feel good actually

[@nuclearjello2243]

I think we all know why he chose the element potassium and why he stressed it so much.

[@plushifoxed]

Lightners Love Videos About Planes They Look Them Up All The Time

[@DiracComb.7585]

1:41 I thought he was talking about Wendover for a second there

[@eacalvert]

Oh how timely this video still is a year later in relation to the debt ceiling

[@EbolaMuffins]

I'm gonna take myself hostage

[@nekomakhea9440]

Value of human life in 2006: $7.4 Million Value of human life in 2021: $10 Million The one upside of hyperinflation, I suppose...

[@3l822]

U clearly dont know economics

[@skysight1553]

I10 million now is probably worth less then 7.4 mill in 2006,

[@timothygooding9544]

something else that is interesting is that there is also a number for that with road infrastructure

[@captzoom1778]

Don't forget your lawyer gets 1/3 of that ten million dollars

[@farmertyler8087]

Farming definitely messed up that osha statistic 😂. One of the most important, most dangerous, and lowest paying jobs

[@Billybob-eo5vf]

Last time I was this early I made a joke about being this early

[@JPaterson8942]

I'd watch a full-length documentary about this...

[@janlivny6196]

i thought for a second that the title was live updated, just for me using data that is accessible on the internet.

[@BruhBruh-nm1gg]

The Army says I’m worth even less.

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

If the US government valued people's life that much, the US would have universal healthcare by now.

[@Jokingparrot]

"You Can't Die From Being A Libarian" *starts staring at the bookshelf, and pictures it falling down*

[@cobro477]

Imma bout to hold myself hostage for 10 million