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@Knytz

Ай бұрын

Lol eu estava a ver o video do nada aparece o boneco com um pastel de nata

@bobsterclause342

5 күн бұрын

Bro, thats a lot of money. As anoyed at the government, thats not to bad. If you think about it, your valued as a millionair at 12.5 mill. What do you think?

@CLOCKROOK

2 күн бұрын

A

The 3 people who said no to treating the 20 year old and yes to treating the 80 year old lol

@Lack_Of_Interest

Ай бұрын

This is why they are called _outliars._

@vVearon

Ай бұрын

i’m totally not one of them

@jaystrickland4151

Ай бұрын

Generally they didn't read the question.

@LUNE.44

Ай бұрын

@@jaystrickland4151 or they want to stand out more

@leocrabe2253

Ай бұрын

You could think that knowledge and wisdom are worth more than lifespan, it's an interesting debate, and I don't think there is a purely right answer

Ah yes information, my favorite.

@dwarian5252

Ай бұрын

I am also an intellectual and enjoy the electrical and chemical signals in my noggin, from the consumption of this educational material of the medium coined as video.

@henmanimationgames7304

Ай бұрын

i watch because

@Greenyx4219

Ай бұрын

@@dwarian5252wdym Intelectual this just triggers the funky chemicals in my brain and makes me curious and happy well always

@hydra8138

7 күн бұрын

@@Greenyx4219 pls never leave another comment again 🙏🙏🙏

@Greenyx4219

7 күн бұрын

@@hydra8138 the fuck you talking about? I’m literally right

I think its worth to remember that: 1. More money spent doesn't necessarily mean the outcome will be better. There are other factors coming into picture like impossibility to sustain budget over the lifespan of project (if u plan to spend 20 years on this, there's a chance that project will never be finished and money will just burned). The case studies of some countries having success most of the time aren't applicable on others. 2. There are scenarios where technology or investment are not reaching to what they attempt to solve, but simply still get passed through $$$ allocations because of side developments they lead to. See where "space" or "internet" were built for absolutely unrelated military & surveillance goals, but leaded to enormous amount of technologies built around it. The space is something we still probably see as a money burner, but it still worth it.

@Dogo.R

Ай бұрын

Amazing tech first starting from the military is like winning at a casino. Just because you got a big win doesnt mean your spending your money in an efficent way. You have to compare options logically, not just look at your big wins.

@BCrossing

Ай бұрын

My government values my life at less than $100,000 and here you come swinging to its defence with 'But the edge-cases!' 'But the military gives us GPS!'. My life is much more important than $100,000. Why can't you fix that, before we talk about military technologies being worth it, which is true, but way further down the line. It's a question of priority, and life is clearly valued too little.

Bold to assume everyone is worth $12.5 million… certain people aren’t even worth 100 bucks

@MidnightCamomile

28 күн бұрын

Dangggg 😢

@MrPandaGoogol

25 күн бұрын

That’s why slaves costed 2 bucks

@MrPandaGoogol

23 күн бұрын

Bro it a joke

@Bianco207

22 күн бұрын

@@MrPandaGoogolnot even some bids back then were 50 cents

@funeedev

21 күн бұрын

@@Bianco207 That's not even remotely true. The average price of a slave was around 800$ in the 1850, with some skilled slaves going up for $2,000, 800$ adjusted for inflation is $28,000 - $30,000 in modern dollars and for very skilled slaves up to 75,000$ each. Infact, slaves today actually cost less than slaves did back then even though it's illegal now.

OMG the animation at 3:31 I'm crying, also how you represent death sometimes, it's like a punch of humour inside the video lol

I always enjoy the animation in the video but that flood part in the beginning… it was so cool and well animated, great job as always

Bro one of ur vids helped to get a A grade for Eff.Speech subject. Tysm

Definitely some of the highest quality videos on YT rn! Great work🫶

wow, your channel has to be one of the most underrated on KZread. my studies are mostly on econometrics in transport and oftentimes cover CBA and therefore VSL. The way you explained these concepts while referencing further literature is not something that can be found often on KZread, great job!

Netherlands is built different, they literally just uno reversed flooding

The quality editing, rigurous academic research and use of data behind this video is truly impressive. Super entertaining and insightful to watch. Thanks a lot for this excellent work!

I love how the coversation is always lockdown vs no lockdown. Rather than talking about things other that lockdowns, like communication, hospital improvements, mitigation research, ect. Instead the conversation is always economy(money) vs lockdown... as if the world is that simple.

I am going to say it: in most of the global south and eastern dictatorships, life is nearly worthless.

great work, I love the part where you mentionned the Covid policy paper

The road safety one doesn't really make sense though because pedestrians don't die randomly they have to walk in front of cars so if you're just vigilant around roads then it doesn't decrease your chance of death at all since you're already completely safe

Really glad I am subscribed, the quality of your videos is astonishing! You motivated me to actually read Balmford et al., 2020.

Been following you since the second video, they are really well made and get better each time. The topics are also quite interesting. Keep up the work!

@memeabledata

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

With the question of the 19 year old, I think he should certainly get the treatment, both from a moral viewpoint, and an economical viewpoint, because in 61 years, that boy can generate more value than $1.5M , so in the long run the government would gain money

@Brontok

Ай бұрын

And what if the guy is from Senegal or comes from a poor family? I get your point and I'm with you but I think it's not only about the value you can generate to society because then we are probably letting die young people from poor families and at the same time saving old 80 years old men who are CEOs of big companies and who would die anyways in one year of something else. I always discussed and defended your point when talking with my economy teacher some years ago but I think there's more hidden value than the value you generate to society.

@June_Hee

Ай бұрын

unfortunately letting young poor people while saving old CEOs is exactly something that would happen irl

@NikolasTsakonas-jo4wz

20 күн бұрын

@@Brontok I think that if the person comes from a poor family, they can still get the treatment, because it is paid by wealthier taxpayers, and if the person comes from Senegal as you said, the country doesn't have enough money for expensive procedures like that, so generally they can't offer that to people

@Brontok

19 күн бұрын

@@NikolasTsakonas-jo4wz I mean someone from Senegal living in a country like the US or in Europe. The question is: If we could only save 1 person (because the treatment is too expensive or whatever), who would you save: - Joe Biden, Donald Trump or a very old CEO - a 15 year old from a very poor family That's a very hard question because Biden, Trump or the CEO probably generates more value to society in one year than the 15 year old in his whole life, whoever it's not the same psychological damage for the family if a +80 year old dies than a 15 year old. I'm so happy that I don't need to make that decision... In the past I would have chosen the CEO or president because of the value they can generate in their last months or even years but nowadays I'm not sure because there's a hidden value in saving the young person I can't really describe. I hope you get my point.

@NikolasTsakonas-jo4wz

19 күн бұрын

@@Brontok I would save Donald Trump, cause his brain still works, unlike Joe Biden, but I wouldn’t need to, because Trump can afford private healthcare, and I think that wealthier people can afford to pay for themselves, but I understand morally why you would want to save the poor young kid, although I believe that money is more important than morality for a government, also Trump is nearly 78 not 80

The sponsor was actually genius the way you put it in, I can tell when a ad read is coming up but I didn't get suspicious until you said "aboard"

Happy you are back - and with such a banger of an ethics-statistics-public health video! I enjoyed it a lot. // I think you'd be wise to continue picking topics like this. Your style is pretty similar to "fern" but they switched to storytelling. So by staying with abstract concepts, you differentiate yourself. For me, as a subscriber of both channels, this would be a reason to continue watching your channel even if "fern" has an even higher production value. All the best!

It’s not entirely unethical to put a dollar price on a human life its unethical when those prices differ from person to person.

@TopGtrade

Ай бұрын

No if you're a drug addict and do nothing you're useless and you are gonna be valued less but if you're a hard working man you're gonna be valued more

@JB0576

25 күн бұрын

Is it still unethical if a rapist who has shown to be a repeat offender has a lower value than a school teacher

@xgamermudkip7154

25 күн бұрын

That's simply not true though. If you had to choose between MLK and Hitler surviving, you'd choose MLK 100% of the time. Which means that you value Hitler less. Hypocrite.

@TopGtrade

25 күн бұрын

@@JB0576 no it's not . JB it's hard to hear but you're a not smart person.

@Jon_Snowhite

24 күн бұрын

​@JB0576 If you believe human life is sacred then yes for the sake of objectivism. If you believe in inequality of souls and not in the sacredness of life then no, because deeming one life as having more value than another is entirely subjective and arbitrary based on personal feelings or societal reasoning.

man this channel is so fascinating. What a great video

I was waiting for this video. It turned out great. Also, fascinating topic. Thank you!

The problem is that sometimes the cost benefit analysis is not worth it. As in we shouldn't be checking how much it costs to save a life because it's too hard to estimate how useful that thing will be.

@Dogo.R

Ай бұрын

You cannot act without an estimation. You have an estimation whether you are conscious of it or not. If there was no estimation then any choice that has any potential effect on any life ever, from now to infinately far in the future, would be impossible to choose. You make choice calculations using a value for it whether you like it or not. Not to mention that something being hard doesnt mean you shouldnt try to progress towards overcoming it. If you never started to try to climb everest you never will. Trying is how it becomes easier.

@mr.cauliflower3536

Ай бұрын

@@Dogo.R I am saying that if you have to write a paper on whether putting the sign there will be worth it, you probably are losing more money than it's worth.

@xgamermudkip7154

25 күн бұрын

​@@mr.cauliflower3536no fucking shit. You shouldn't have to do detailed research to determine 1 outcome of something that basic, you should apply the knowledge we already have. That's called "memories."

I chose $4.40, but honestly? I make 3x more now than I did just two years ago, so I can afford to pay the toll without much, if any hit to my wealth and budget. But if I was still making the same amount from a few years ago? Man that would hurt my wallet.

@cai0

Ай бұрын

I pay $5 toll to avoid 20min traffic, I find it insane that anyone would choose the riskier option (while spending $1k+ on iPhones). I don't get Americans.

In this discussion it is also important not to neglect an individual’s own choices. It’s ultimately up to the driver to decide which road they want to drive on, like you said. The government cannot (and should not) assume the role of removing all risk in activities. Eliminating all such risks eliminates a persons choice to drive on the less safe road

Love your content man, I bet your channel will blow up to 1 mill pretty quick. Would love to see some videos about the job market or housing market, idk how you would do that, but hey are pertinent topics

@memeabledata

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Dutch people know at 2:05 we see a Swapfiets

Wow, these topics were pretty much covered verbatim in one of my economics classes last year. You explained them extremely well, especially the value of using a QALY! A lot of economics centers around trade-offs, and especially in the public domain, people tend to see a lot of government spending as only a cost with no benefit. However, when we don't spend money on things like social services and infrastructure, we suffer lower productivity and a lower quality of life. Especially in regards to healthcare, we've shifted a lot of public spending towards older people instead of young people, ensuring a marginally better quality of life for the elderly at the cost of some of our country's future productivity.

Just wanted to say the effort and quality put into these videos are amazing and the animations are top notch. Love the style of presentation and the information that you provide is amazing ❤❤

@memeabledata

21 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Your videos are amazing! Congratulations to you and your team! Greeting from Chile😄

Really high quality video great job

I'm proud of you! Excellent work like always ❤

@memeabledata

Ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

You should also consider the value of preventing situations in other ways, like the mentioned road safety cost. Perhaps improving the driving course programs for situation awareness would decrease deaths

Love your work ! Keep going !

Super interesting! Thank you for all your work!

It's really good video better then what I thought from thumbnail

Your channel's gonna become huge!

In Brazil our life for the government probably worth less than 50.000 dolars. :(

My compliments on your clear and concise explanation of the complex problem of risk management. Even more complicated is the question about comparative risk. The US budget for armed forces is approaching $1 trillion annually, yet I am not aware of any civilians inside the USA who have died or been injured as a consequence of attacks by foreign forces. However, more than 38,000 elderly Americans died from accidental falls in 2021. In comparative risk analysis, it would be more cost-effective in terms of the value of a statistical life to establish a Ministry of Balance to promote training in equilibrium retention as a means to mitigate the mortality and morbidity associated with the vestibular disorders of ageing.

I feel it makes sense for a value of a life(i get its priceless but as the video said there has to be a cut-off point) being the number of money in the country/the numbers of live living in said countries So its more of a dynamic price and it accounts for inflation and economic state of the country at the moment

such an interresting video, ty !

I like the running sound

I worked at the construction site and with such questions I always ask myself if the lives of the workers are being taken into account when calculating this. For example the work accident rate in the construction site is very high and sometimes it leads to death so imagine you're building something to save 1 life but building this 3 workers die, is it still worth it? Or just count the time all workers together spend on the project, from the architect and the engineers to the builders, is it worth it to spend a total of let's say 4000 years (summing together all the time spent by all the people working there) to save one single life that will probably live 40 years? I know all those risks are somehow implied with the money ypu spend but if you're a construction worker that gets paid 1000€ per month, does it mean you're ready to lose your life for that anount of money (monthly)?

lets go i was waiting for this

My country, Turkey is completely made up of mountains and I am happy with it 🙂 Having mountains for a second means having fault lines and we are exposed to earthquakes at least once a year, bruhh In our last earthquake, we lost 100,000 people and suffered a loss of $90,000,000,000 😢

So the title was clickbait then It’s a joke, great video

1:20-Option A easily! With option B you reduce the risk to 1/4 but with 100 times the cost,and option C reduces the risk to 1/20 but with 5000 times the cost! 4:50-Road 2 is worth it. Double the price for half the deaths. 5:07-Damn,and i thought i am cold with such decisions! 7:13-yes. 7:32-Nope. 9:40-Because like it or not,there is a price for anything.

@BladluizGaming

Ай бұрын

Yeah... No. Regarding the dikes, option A is horrible looking at the odds of disaster. Tf is the government collecting taxes for if it's not this??

Yay i'm in the video :) also, a very informative video as always

I would like to add that a twofold reduction in the accident rate with a double increase in cost can have an order of magnitude cheaper alternatives.

Tbh I am flattered that they give our life this high of a value

A country or a person has limited resources and I think a countries duty is to spend those resources most effectively to improve its citizens lives. Any cost saved is money that can the spent elsewhere towards that goal. I think the video covers this nicely, but when looking at only one metric like dams or healthcare, its hard to put into perspective how that saved dollar amount can go into saving more lives. So in the full context its not about dollars to lives, its about maximizing the lives in general, and how to allocate money towards that goal. I think some people don't see that and get mad when the government doesn't throw the whole gdp at any given humanitarian problem. Also a thing I think may have impacted the polls is that for traffic deaths I can imagine it easier to blame the people who died for doing something stupid in the road than I can blame someone for getting a random deadly disease, and thus may be more favorable towards giving money to those who are suffering through no fault.

“9:47 - even if we don’t assign a value to life implicitly, we assign it explicitly”: true.

@polygontower

Күн бұрын

Isn't it better to say it the other way around because the commonfolk often don't assign a value to life? "Even if we don't assign a value to life explicitly, we assign it implicitly"

OMDS, é um outro camarada tuga. tudo de bom para ti, rei

Nunca teria adivinhado que eras tuga, o teu sotaque tá mt bom mano 🫡🫡🫡

7:42 I think that should be left up to him, like how "pulling the plug" is left up to the family.

Hey Memeable Data, I would love to see the impact of the gulf steam on our earth in the future and its development in the past.

10:54 WHAT IM CRYING THIS IS SO FUNNY

🇵🇹 esta orgulhoso, os teus videos sao incriveis !

Hi, I ran into a similar dilemma. There is a war going on in my country, and this has forced a major revision of the current standards of risk regulation: it is much cheaper to increase the existing survival rate in war than on civilian roads. Therefore, I proposed to introduce bicycle lanes on a multi-lane roundabout instead of separated bike paths (I note that now there is already a wide sidewalk, which, however, would not interfere with repairing and lowering curbs). The reaction seemed unanimously negative. So in the updated version, I proposed to do without cycling infrastructure at all, only providing places for it. All this was influenced by subjective perception and incompleteness of data, perhaps something else. But here's the question I have: how to enable decentralized risk regulation in conditions of subjectivity, uncertainty, and variability, without losing the fundamental social institutions that allow us to think about independent risk regulation at all.

2:16 letsgoooo broodje kaas!

Nunca tinha percebido que és português. Agora o sotaque parece-me óbvio. Continua o excelente trabalho!

@Brontok

Ай бұрын

He already said that in another video and I was also impressed about that

I think it should be a matter of distributing recourses most effectively, not to a certain level of life worth. Every public policy should have that as an end goal

Wow, awesome video!!

with corona they also had values in austria, i think it was about 1 mil

Love your videos!

I wish more people made choices based off of math like this

First option gives you 0.8% chance of no deadly tsunami happening per 1M, second 0.0095% per and last gives 0.000198 per. This makes the first option statistically the best

@memeabledata

27 күн бұрын

So would you build a sea wall if it costed $1M and had 99% chance of a deadly tsunami? (1.0% chance of no deadly tsunami per 1M) :)

Vídeo muito bem feito. Parabéns!

Boeing Hitman: I deserve a raise

Reminds me of a choice, you had to make at the end of fable 3

I was about to make a joke about how black market think you cost more but after some searches(thay shit will forever be on my search history now) according to the black market you are worth 3M$

So the USA put a higher “price tag” on a life, but they have much higher mortality rates than other parts of the world. For traffic accidents, homicide, covid, drugs overdose etc. So in the USA, practice is far worse than theory.

@6725r

Ай бұрын

By other parts of the world, I think you are most likely referring to Europe but you don’t mention the fact that the usa(a country) has literally half the population of Europe(a continent) so no shit the mortality rate will be higher💀

@EdwinMartin

Ай бұрын

@@6725r That’s not how mortality rate works. It’s not only Europe. For example, Brasil, Thailand and Saudi Arabia have a higher life expectancy.

@6725r

26 күн бұрын

@@EdwinMartin Brazil one isn't true

It’s definitely worth the wait❤

Government can also treat people as source of income (taxes) and evaluate the life accordingly

such a good video well done

This video really made me rethink quality of life because if the 20 year old has great health but get a life ending disease but before that he was usually in his house playing video games or on his phone his quality of life is poor then should he get the 1.5 million dollar treatment if he is just going to spend his life in is house doing nothing. Just a thought

Gosh your videos are amazing

Great video!

Amazing video!

I understand that there is likely many things to be said to reinforce the claim, but pre-watching the video, the value of us, is only how many stupid purchases we can be convinced we need.

I didn't know that my mate is one of us, internationals in NL hahahah

12.5 million, man the government overestimates my worth.

The question of how long a society waited to implement lockdown isn't simply a question of lives vs economy. It also a question of freedom. People don't like being restricted from going out. It's the age old debate of safety vs freedom.

"Or atleast I hope you do" BLUD ROASTED US 😭

nice videos...love it

Good video

Excellent video

Wow it went up from 10 Million…

Great, now can you make the same video but with Euros?

excellent video

My life was valued at 14k after an interstate construction accident that i was hit head on by a vehicle traveling roughly 40/50mph.(..there was no investigation. Im assuming so there was no reported injuries but i dont know that)..and i fought for almost 3 yrs to get that value and left with permanent impairments including a damaged spine/possibly brain. Thanks Ken Nunn! (This is sarcasm) If u value ur life dont use this attorney i just mentioned....i saved all the paperwork in hopes one day itll be made right. Including the 100 pages of advertisements( less than 20 pages of actual legal stuff) they sent me....hope none of u or anyone u know ever experience these facts GG

So basically It's all a minimum effort so that they can save more money for useless things like handouts and passing hundreds of useless laws.

The chance that your hit by a car is somthing you can make smaller by watching out for them

In the context of healthcare, this is why a nationalized system is so fraught, from an ethical standpoint. The state should not be in the position of determining the value of a human life, and thus determining who gets healthcare based on that.

I'm Portuguese too!! :D

Very good video.

How do you do these amazing animations?

@memeabledata

Ай бұрын

The animations are made in Blender!

An AK-47 cartridge costs about .5$ so I’m assuming it’s somewhere near that