Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
by logicchains on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:31AM
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This completely ignores incentives. If insurance isn't allowed to charge people more who live in fireprone or floodprone areas, more people will live in such areas, and overall society will have to spend more money rebuilding when disasters inevitably hit those areas. Personalised insurance pricing would allow insurers to charge much more to people living in such areas, which incentivises people not to live there. It's also a moral issue: if everyone pays the same rate, then people who did the right thing and chose to live in an area that wasn't fire or flood prone are subsidising people who did the risky thing.
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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
by ashoeafoot on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:46AM
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He wrote about risky business too
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154965705
Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
by snacksmcgee on Friday January 17, 2025 @05:23AM
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What about the people who drive cars, vote for more suburban sprawl, and actively work against reducing CO2 emissions? When are we going to charge them THEIR fair share?