I was reading the article Why American lives matter most, about our long history of racism and narcissism in wars, when I got pissed off and googled "price of life paid compensation".
I was surprised by how well documented this idea is.

To be fair, not all lives are worth the same.

Seven million dollars per U.S. citizen is the number the EPA uses.

In fact, $7 million is roughly the "statistical value of life" used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in formulating regulatory policy. Other U.S. agencies use similar numbers.

The families of 9/11 victims were paid $38 Billion. That means several million dollars per victim.

The lives of our soldiers killed overseas are worth a lot less, but is still a significant amount.

Yet compensation payments for those who die tend to be much lower in the United States and elsewhere. Especially elsewhere. U.S. soldiers killed in battle merit a "death benefit" of $500,000

That's a $100k payout, plus the standard $400k life insurance for soldiers that are increasingly brown of color.

But that's only people with American passports.
When it comes to racism, America reserves it's worst prejudice for those people with the wrong color of passport.
If you thought dropping from $7 million to $500k was a big drop, look at how cheaply we price lives of poor people in muslim nations.

In March 2014, the U.S. military paid an Afghan man just over $1,000 to compensate for killing his civilian son in an operation near the border with Iran, according to U.S. military records released to Reuters.

I paid twice as much for my first car. Not all payments are so small.

According to U.S. military documents obtained by Reuters under a Freedom of Information Act request, American forces have paid Afghan families about $1.2 million for the deaths of at least 101 Afghans and injuries to 270 others from the end of 2013 to 2016.

There's no standardized method for putting a price on the life of an innocent child that we murdered, and who is Afghani, but let's just say they are in the "moving into a studio apartment" range.
It's disgusting.

The United States frequently paid $2,500 in response to the death of a civilian in Iraq, and continues make payouts around this amount in Afghanistan...
Yet even these payments can throw up striking contrasts. Leaked spreadsheets show the United States in one case paid as much for the loss of a cow "caught in crossfire and razor wire" as it routinely pays following the death of an Afghan civilian.

One cow = one Afghan civilian
That has got to be the most unintentionally racist sh*t I know.

Just think about all of those years of deafening screams of "Racist Wars!" by liberals!
Listen how liberals go on and on about how we've got to stop murdering brown-skinned children all around the world because of the racist foreign policies of President Obama, and how those racist policies continue under Trump.

[chirp, chirp]

Sorry, I meant deafening silence by liberals when faced with this obvious racism.
That is, when they aren't demanding an escalation of our racist wars.
Because liberal outrage at racism doesn't extend beyond our borders, even when our troops do.

We may not have a standardized system for compensation, but the British do.

British forces, who serve in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), use a table of standard injury and death payments to guide them. It includes suggested awards of $200 for minor injuries, $240 for the loss of a toe, $1,000 for the loss of an eye and $7,000 for the amputation of both feet.

The table, released by the ministry, shows the severity of an injury and the number of a victim’s dependants play a big role in determining how much to pay. The document advises troops also to consider the “sex of the injured party in relation to their earnings capacity and family responsibilities”.

It recommends payouts for the death of an Afghan child of between $2,000 and $5,000, and between $5,000 and $8,000 for the death of an adult, defined as someone aged 12 or older. Deaths of working men with large families are likely to result in the biggest payouts, it says.

You got to give it to the British. All that colonial experience at delivering atrocities onto innocent populations have made this systematic for them.
Meanwhile, we are all over the map.

The average payment following the loss of an Afghan life was $2,500 while the most frequent was $2,000, according to the Foundation's analysis of the files uploaded to the website publicintelligence.info.

The highest recorded payment for the death of a single civilian in the files appears to be $4,700, to the family of an interpreter killed on a military base in Khost province in September 2008. The lowest was the $1,000 for the killing of a woman’s son paid in Kabul in October 2007.

In one case, U.S. forces paid $4,500 to two men for the lives of seven relatives killed in an air strike in Helmand in August 2010.

You would think that with a bloated $700 Billion defense budget that we wouldn't be so damn cheap when it comes to paying compensation for murdering innocent children.
It must be their fault for having the wrong passport.