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For the golden gate bridge, that's not a particularly large impact of deaths. Even if you don't like assigning a monetary value to lives, bad infrastructure causes its own deaths in the people using it. But it's simpler to say lives are worth ten million dollars and then calculate that those deaths were about 4% of the cost.

For the other two, the death toll was much more significant.



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