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Is the world becoming uninsurable?

512 pointsby spking01/17/20251213 commentsview on HN

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sophiaisabella801/17/2025

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richrichie01/17/2025

Not one paper cited. Just random recitation of climate change hysteria tropes.

Life on earth had dealt with 120 meters of sea level rise. So please.

paulsutter01/17/2025

Apparently climate change causes reductions in fire department funding, amirite?

pontifier01/17/2025

Insurance is such a crutch for some people, but it shouldn't be.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing whether you have insurance or not.

In my opinion, the amount of resources spent on buying insurance would, in almost every case, be better spent on prevention rather than after the fact mitigation.

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lawlessone01/17/2025

Obviously insurance companies, and i of course, would prefer if nobody anywhere ever had accidents or got sick etc

And i'd love it every lottery ticket, and horse i ever bet on was a winner

Feels like insurance companies just don't want to do their job.

They're getting paid to take someone's risk and then refusing to accept it.

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lasermike02601/17/2025

Insurance needs to be not-for-profit or a government enterprise. Physical projects and infrastructure should not be started until risk is assessed. Speculators and go-go finance has ought to be constrained. As for myself, I am choosing alternative ways to plan, finance, build, and manage infrastructure project. The current systems is a non-starter for most people under 50.

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naming_the_user01/17/2025

To me this sort of thing just seems like a weird financialization brain disease of sorts.

At the end of the day if your house burns down you can go and get some wood / stone / whatever and build one somewhere else and this will basically always be possible to do to some degree.

The question is just about what the chance of having to do that per year is and what that represents in dollar value. It can’t not be possible.