Summary Of What Is A Life Worth By Steve Jobs

In Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address at Stanford University in 2005, he argued that knowing he would die soon was the “most important tool” he used to help him make all of his big decisions in life. Assigning monetary value to a person’s life is immoral because lives should be priceless. Death is inevitable, but how one values their own life and how they live is important. Jobs said “ No one wants to die… And yet death is the destination we all share.” (Jobs, 22) People do not realize what they have until they lose it puts this idea into perspective. Steve Jobs lived his life to the fullest because he knew he was going to die soon. He valued his life deeply because he knew what he was going to lose, like fame, fortune, his loved ones etc… Unlike Jobs the government thinks lives are valuable when pertaining to money.

When Ripley argues, “ Courts always grant money on the basis of a person’s earning power in life. That’s because the courts are not attempting to replace souls,” (Ripley, 28) she reveals that the government is not empathetic towards families who lose loved ones. A poor man’s life should not be worth less than a rich man’s life because money does not equate pain and suffering. Life should be valued on how a person impacts others as well as how they value their own lives, in no way should a life be valued in terms of