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I don't mean this in a life or death way. I mean what is your life worth? Your house, cars, toys and everything that goes with what you call your life. This includes your job and friends. This broken hearted Brit in Ozz is selling everything online to the highest bidder.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23690706/

More info:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/webay117.xml


So, what are you worth?

What am I worth?

Erm, I can cook pretty well, and am generally a fairly alright type, if arrogant at times, and can speak some foreign languages.

If the Diplomatic Corps ever needed an ambassador who's also a reasonable cook, I'd be worth a lot. So aye, if you are recruiting such people, the Diplomatic Corps, don't hesitate to drop me an NSG telegram.

As it stands, as a tax-scrounging (but tax-paying, because I didn't fill in the forms saying 'don't tax my interest please, just so I could moan about taxes and all that) student, I'm probably not worth that much. Sorry, the British public at large.

How do you put value on human life? Especially on your own? Won't most people bring out their good attributes and say they are worth a lot?

Well, considering all the scholarships I've accumulated for colleges, quite a bit. $110,000. That's right.

I'm humble, aren't I?

Ah well, yer German is still poor like Malawi tbqh. And if you can't work out the quite frankly elementary error in your sidebar, then you hardly deserve the 110k.

:( You make me sad. It wasn't for German, though. As you've almost certainly discovered.

EDIT: And if you're referring to the fact that "sagen" isn't at the end of the sentence, I did that to make it have a semi-rhyme. Say it out loud.
Kann man sagen
Die Vereinigte Staaten.

Has a nicer ring than Kann man die Vereinigte Staaten sagen, even if it is incorrect grammar.

-$13.04, but it charges me a hell of a lot more.

463.7538 zillion.

Worth needs to be measured, or else it won't matter.

Ultimately, it's a clash between people who see human life as precious and those who see it as worth cash.

So, is it the sum total of your possessions, or something more subjective? In the latter case, you can't put a price tag on personality. You can't measure it, you can't empirically study or scrutinize it. Possessions are another story...

463.7538 zillion.

In monopoly money??

I don't mean this in a life or death way. I mean what is your life worth? Your house, cars, toys and everything that goes with what you call your life. This includes your job and friends. This broken hearted Brit in Ozz is selling everything online to the highest bidder.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23690706/

More info:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/webay117.xml


So, what are you worth?

Probably not a whole lot.

Then again, the basis of my life rests in my faith, so monetary value doesnt actually mean too much to me.

:( You make me sad. It wasn't for German, though. As you've almost certainly discovered.

EDIT: And if you're referring to the fact that "sagen" isn't at the end of the sentence, I did that to make it rhyme. Say it out loud.
Kann man sagen
Die Vereinigte Staaten.

Has a nicer ring than Kann man die Vereinigte Staaten sagen, even if it is incorrect grammar.
'Vereinigte' should have an 'n' at the end, it's in the accusative, after all, and even in the nominative it'd be 'vereinigten'.



Oh, and sorry I made you sad, I'm just a bit tired. Didn't really mean to get shirty - :fluffle:?

On another note, what is the scholarship for?

Some of you are missing the question.

Outside of what you think "you" are worth. What is the value of the life you have created around "you". The guy is selling everything around him. He is not selling himself.

'Vereinigte' should have an 'n' at the end, it's in the accusative, after all.



Oh, and sorry I made you sad, I'm just a bit tired. Didn't really mean to get shirty - :fluffle:?

On another note, what is the scholarship for?

No worries, I wasn't exactly being humble. They're actually four scholarships for four separate schools, one for $45,000, one for $40,000, one for $25,000, and one for $6,000. It's mainly because I have a huge quantity of extra-curriculars. (eagle scout and the like), not because I'm an uber-stellar student.

... after depreciation...

I'd say...

Make me an offer. :p

No worries, I wasn't exactly being humble. They're actually four scholarships for four separate schools, one for $45,000, one for $40,000, one for $25,000, and one for $6,000. It's mainly because I have a huge quantity of extra-curriculars. (eagle scout and the like), not because I'm an uber-stellar student.
Ah, rightio. Fair enough, then.

The total sum of my projected lifetime earnings. Stuff does not equal your life.

$64.59

In terms of material posessions? Probably around A$55,000.

In terms of potential future pay-offs, given my education at this point, probably quite a bit more. But there are valuation experts for that sort of thing.

By the way, there is another method of measuring how much people are worth...look at their life insurances. If we were being economic theorists, their value would tell you the minimum amount of money a person would accept in return for being dead. :p

God damned slaves traders folks. Marla get ut 'er ol' shotgun!

I know this isn't what the Aussie meant but... there should be another kind of "Life Insurance" for those times when others completely ruin your life and you money to get back on your feet. :D

I know this isn't what the Aussie meant but... there should be another kind of "Life Insurance" for those times when others completely ruin your life and you money to get back on your feet. :D

There is. It's called insurance fraud. Just stage a robbery and instant cash.


do not attempt this at home.

There is. It's called insurance fraud. Just stage a robbery and instant cash.


do not attempt this at home.

Thats not what I meant :confused:

Thats not what I meant :confused:

Yes but it would solve the issue now wouldn't it? ;)

Thinking outside the box is one of my talents.

I don't mean this in a life or death way. I mean what is your life worth? Your house, cars, toys and everything that goes with what you call your life. This includes your job and friends. This broken hearted Brit in Ozz is selling everything online to the highest bidder.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23690706/

More info:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/webay117.xml


So, what are you worth?

Priceless, of course! ;)

... after depreciation...

I'd say...

Make me an offer. :p

*dumps out pocketbook*

eh.....I have 35 cents US a lipstick, a Wal*mart reciept, 2 Hershey kisses and .....a used Kleenex.

sold?

I generally add the equivalent of ten wage-hours of labor to whatever I do. So just take the number of weeks I've been over eighteen, multiply by sixty, and you've got your answer.

50 cents....thats more than most people in our debt ridden society are worth...so ill take it...any buyers :)

I generally add the equivalent of ten wage-hours of labor to whatever I do. So just take the number of weeks I've been over eighteen, multiply by sixty, and you've got your answer.

A "simple answer" to The Ultimate Question is requested from the computer Deep Thought—specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer which turns out to be 42

A "simple answer" to The Ultimate Question is requested from the computer Deep Thought—specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer which turns out to be 42

42, eh? *Does math* Yeah, that seems about right.

"My current thoughts are to then head to the airport, and ask at the flight desk where the next flight with an available seat goes to, and to get on that and see where life takes me from there," he wrote online.
What if it's to like Baghdad or Mogadishu...?

About a buck fiddy. NOt to say that I haven't invested, oh about 60 million times that, but there is virtually no return.

Seeing as how when I got to the part on the page with "Related Content" I immediately clicked on "E-mail nude photos of ex-girlfriend, go to jail".. probably not too much. :p

I am too lazy to calculate it at any rate.

At first, I wanted to say this guy was being completely Linkin Park about the whole thing, but then I thought - hell, how many people really do wish they could just completely start over? If he's got the scrote to try, I can't say I could hold it against him. Some people spend a lifetime beating a dead horse, trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (and other cliches as well), and expend too much time and frustration with very little payoff. Why NOT wipe the slate clean?

The one real criticism I have concerns his friends; I'd be HIGHLY effin' insulted that my friend just completely wanted to ditch me as part of a "new life". You want to move house, get a totally new job, remake yourself - hey, knock yourself out. But it sounds like this guy just wants to push every last vestige of his old life onto someone else and forget it ever existed. I can't imagine that includes regularly phoning or writing those old friends to see how they're doing. I think that's rather shitty of him.

My net worth has been negative for a long time, and I seem to go deeper in the hole every year. I still have friends, but some of the people I care about most deeply I've gotten on bad terms with (my fault mostly). My body is falling apart. I don't think anyone will really want to pay anything to take over this slot.