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Haven't seen the movie, but read a short story on this premise in jr. high. " Push the button, someone dies, you get rich."  Guy whines a lot and pushes the button.  Story ends with the man picking up the box, button pusher asks "What will you do with the box now?"    

"We'll make someone else the same offer we made you".

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I'd tell that creepy guy with the fucked up head to get off my lawn.

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Another way to look at it is:
* The overall median income is $32k/yr.  
* The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%.
* The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars.
* There are roughly 310 million people in the US.
* The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life
* The average life expectancy is 78 years

So...
* The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars)
* The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes
* That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy
* The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day
* That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day

So, every minute...
* The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it.
* That's 2.5 million per "button press."

However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth.  If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press."  Which is pretty close to the proposed model.


In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds.

In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans.