The standard $10M figure is not about the value of a life. I don’t value my or any other human life at $X/yr,. I value them much more than that. What I don’t and can’t do (individually, or for everyone as a collective) is try to spend much more than that on preserving them, because the limiting factor isn’t intrinsic value it’s resource availability. I’m not going to pretend my life is anything close to an optimal arrangement of my resources for preserving said life, but even if it were, I don’t think I’d get as far as “never drive” by the time I ran out of money.
The standard $10M figure is not about the value of a life. I don’t value my or any other human life at $X/yr,. I value them much more than that. What I don’t and can’t do (individually, or for everyone as a collective) is try to spend much more than that on preserving them, because the limiting factor isn’t intrinsic value it’s resource availability. I’m not going to pretend my life is anything close to an optimal arrangement of my resources for preserving said life, but even if it were, I don’t think I’d get as far as “never drive” by the time I ran out of money.