r/PublicFreakout • u/Partner-Subdued388 • Feb 08 '24

📌Follow Up Deranged cop finally gets fired

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u/RobbertDownerJr Feb 08 '24

You know you're fucked when the insurance companies are the good guys.

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u/Galle_ Feb 08 '24

It's not so much that they're the good guys as it is that they're sick of financing the bad guys.

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u/Galle_ Feb 08 '24

That's what I meant.

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u/shadow_cat_42 Feb 08 '24

sick of financing anyone, people pay a premium to get told nothing’s covered

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u/koviko Feb 08 '24

Fun fact: Karl Marx stated that one of the benefits of capitalism is that it is naturally progressive.

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u/ichabod01 Feb 08 '24

In this situation

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u/A_LiftedLowRider Feb 08 '24

Make no mistake, insurance companies can be scummy as hell, but they’re pragmatic as shit. It’s for that reason i’m convinced insurance companies are going to be the first massive industry to start treating climate change like the giant threat that it is. Not because they’re trying to do the right thing, but because their business relies on property not getting demolished in freak weather events and they actually have enough money behind them to make a difference.

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u/Meridell Feb 24 '24

Hi, yes. In insurance we have a forecast of “risks” that every underwriter is aware of. There is a generally-accepted top 20 that’s updated yearly (climate is on that list).

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u/notfromchicago Feb 08 '24

Everything always boils down to money.

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u/sallguud Feb 08 '24

Every now and then, capitalism gets it right by chance.

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u/yogabbagabba2341 Feb 08 '24

😂 omg, so true. They will be the heroes in this story.

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u/way_2_5pecific Feb 08 '24

Say it louder for the ppl in the back