Ep. 39 Putting a Price on Life: From 9/11 to the BP Oil Spill and Boston Marathon
DEC 1, 202532 MIN
Ep. 39 Putting a Price on Life: From 9/11 to the BP Oil Spill and Boston Marathon
DEC 1, 202532 MIN
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<p>“You can’t put a price on life!” say politicians, pretending to be compassionate, spending other people’s money.</p><p>But Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, says you CAN put a price on life. </p><p>He's distributed funds to the victims of 9/11, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Boston Marathon, the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Aurora movie theater shooting, and now the LA wildfires.</p><p>In this podcast he explains how he does it, why it's important, but also why (despite the success of the 9/11 fund) paying out money to victims should not be something that government does.</p>