Originally Posted by
ruprecht
You may not like to do it because it’s “too icky”, but rest assured we do it every day.
Precisely. This is what health economists do every day - they assign a $$ value to human life. You can guarantee the Doherty Institute will be looking at precisely these kinds of issues as part of their ‘four phase plan’ modelling. We need to have a detailed and nuanced national debate about what the future is going to look like - something that seems all but impossible in modern Australia.