Insurance, or de facto mandatory gambling where the majority of the players don't know the rules
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Replying to @blue_traveler
@blue_traveler There's an important difference: gambling raises variance, insurance lowers variance.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @blue_traveler
@blue_traveler Rephrased: gambling creates risk, insurance reduces it. Insurance has to be a kind of canceling bet against an existing risk.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@blue_traveler eg: Car insurance is a bet that pays off if and only if you wreck your car or have to pay a lawsuit. It cancels those risks.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@blue_traveler health insurance increases risk to the entire system (in the large scale) but people call it "insurance"2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@blue_traveler "Health insurance" mostly isn't insurance, nope.1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@blue_traveler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurable_risk … Health isn't insurable in that way.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Alrenous
@Alrenous@St_Rev@blue_traveler certainly not ordinary non-catastrophic "health" rituals1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
@sarahdoingthing ut beat me to it as usual
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