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I think they are using Insurance as a predictive indicator of how terrible things are. So you are largely agreeing.

IE:

1. insurance spreads a hurt across a society, using money as an instrument.

2. If insurance doesn't work anymore then the hurt is too large for society!

This linking of 1 and 2 may not be entirely true due to insurance not necessarily being a perfectly efficient "spreader" across society. But I think in practical terms it is close enough.





The linking doesn’t need to be perfect to have real-world consequences: as the article explains, dues to increasing heavy weather events, home owner insurance is harder or even impossible to obtain. Without HOI, you won’t get a mortgage, because that would mean the bank partially enters into that risk. No mortgage means a lot of people cannnot afford to own a house or flat.



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