I’ve seen an economic estimate on the value of human life; they took what pay people accept for risky jobs, and extrapolated from there. But there is the problem that this is in the context of lives where people face some risks anyway, and obviously isn’t some linear scale up to a value someone would commit suicide for, the way a real value would be.
Really, it gave me the very strong impression they were just trying to justify a level of profit it would be worth letting other people die for.
