2/ "If doesn't upset me if someone breaks my car" ...because I have three others, plus a cell phone I can use for Uber, plus credit cards, plus good credit, plus a HELOC. I'd Uber or rent for a month until I got around to buying a new one / insurance paying off.
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3/ Contrast that to someone making $12/hr and driving a 14 year old car with a bad muffler. If that car gets burned in riots, it's gonna be a month until insurance pays off (if it does), and he's gonna lose his $12/hr job in the meantime.
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4/ The bigger the item that you can afford to lose, the richer you are. No one WANTS their house to burn down, but if you can decamp to your second house on Martha's Vineyard, or that darling little farm in Vermont, or a pied a terre in Paris, it's quite survivable.
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5/ Neal Stephenson had a good bit in Cryptonomicon where a protagonist's house burns down or something, and his cousins take him in and try to live really cheap on Slim Jims as they roadtrip ... because they assume that your house / trailer = 100% of your wealth
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6/ ...and not just one instantiation or embodiedment of something much more abstract and shadowy.
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