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What is the Value of Life, Pt. 6: Education

Does education only exist to make us employable or is it meant to make us better people? There’s no agreement on the answer.

Family! We all have them, but do they raise our value or do they hinder it? What is the best structure for realizing our value?

What we do, our occupation, our work, is an important and unavoidable part of how our lives are valued. That value may be threatened.

Using economic calculations to place a value on life often falls short of our perception of self-worth. Can one put a dollar value on life?