Ep. 39 Putting a Price on Life: From 9/11 to the BP Oil Spill and Boston Marathon

“You can’t put a price on life!” say politicians, pretending to be compassionate, spending other people’s money.

But Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, says you CAN put a price on life.

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.

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.