That's not at all what he meant. He was saying that in both cases the stunt man is getting injured, but in the case of digital it doesn't look better than CGI, so at that point why not just do CGI and eliminate the injuries.
This is an old anecdote (~2010), so not completely relevant to the current discussion. But I was living in Germany and the only internet option I had was dial-up. I could hardly believe that such a thing still existed anywhere in Europe, but even more surprising was that it was pay-by-the-minute. There were a bunch of different providers that had different pricing plans where sometimes there would be a connection fee, but lower per-minute rates, and sometimes the rates would go down after so many minutes of connection. The landlord set me up with some software that would try to minimize the cost of an internet session. It would tell you which provider to go with based on an estimated connection duration that you gave it. You could also configure it to hang up and dial into another provider if rates changed enough based on the time of day.