Super interesting that you equate waiting at a red light, with time to pause and breathe, as lost time in the same way not being alive anymore is indeed lost time.

You might be horrified to learn that human life is assigned a monetary value in social considerations. You can't run a large society successfully on feelings. There is an economic cost to lost life, and there is an economic cost to people waiting in traffic, and it may be very well that the latter exceeds the former in this case (though I have not done that calculation).

Holy cow thats both extremely inaccurate and messed up. This sort of reductive economic realism is why people like you fail to understand sufficiently complex topics, like ecology, society, basically anything that isn't currently effectively quantified by the 'market.' You treating an 'economic' cost like that, as if its some cosmic truth whose validity comes from beyond humans, is just as nuts as any religious cultist.