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_2d30 on Dec 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fast

> In every example given people died, more were maimed and even more had mental breakdowns.

I can't find any citations for deaths in many of these examples (Treasure Island, Disneyland, Pentagon). Where are you coming to this conclusion from?

sweeneyrod on Dec 21, 2019 [–]

People certainly died in the construction of the Empire State Building. I think I calculated that the risk of death for a worker on that was higher than the risk for a soldier deployed in Afghanistan.

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