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by goofygrin 6627 days ago
There was a commercial that had something to do with insurance or something, where families were traded like stocks on an exchange.

There have been numerous occasions where I've thought about making something like this. How do you determine the value of a person or family? Would people be open to exposing so much details about their lives in order to increase the "value" of their family/person (like a public company has to open their books)?

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Yea really it is a great question. The valuation is one aspect. The other is the fact that your incentive to succeed goes down once you get money so the very moment you get it, you're expected future earnings go down.

It's fascinating to think about though.