I think I have a brilliant idea

[Subversive Pessimist]

We've talked about the proletarian revolution and wages in several threads the last days.. One who works in the military, would of course expose himself to danger, or even death, because a war or battles could occur. So, let's say they have a wage, in example at 20 dollars an hour. Becuase there is a risk of dying, you will take the life expectancy of (in this example a male), and find the years he has left... Then you will caculate the risk of dying at the battlefield, and you will divide the number of money he would make, with the risk of dying. Well, I'm not good at math, and not good at explaining in English.

So, the normal salary is 20 dollars an hour. Then you divide the number of money he would make from now to his expected normal death, and so you would compensate... Well, that creates a lot of problems like, if you survive, you'll have a lot more cash then others... and that seems unfair... I guess this should have been posted in philosophy or something... :blink:

[Misodoctakleidist]

Whats wrong with unpaid militias?

[Fidelbrand]

Shouldn't emphasis that much on monetary gains or individual concerns. It's too capitalistic. All that calculations and retirbutions in terms of $$$, it's too...... materialistically calculated.

Forget about the money talks, there are loads of people who are hot and ready for sacrificing themselves for political or patriotic causes.

[DaCuBaN]

I believe the Oil industry in the UK does something similar to what you outline in regards to 'Danger Pay'.

[redstar2000]

Projected life-time earnings is a device that was invented to assist insurance accountants in calculating how much they should offer the surviving family of someone killed through the negligence of the company they insured.

Thus the widow and children of a business executive would be offered a much greater sum in "settlement" of their claim than the widow and children of a bricklayer.

If the case went to trial, the company's lawyers would argue: "Look, this guy would only have made X amount in the course of the rest of his working life...why should his family become millionaires?"

I see little use for such calculations in a post-capitalist world.

:redstar2000:

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