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That is indeed part of what people call insurance these days, but in fact it isn't one. It's just a social solidarity scheme, and no one has the balls to call i
by unpopular42 7y ago
That is indeed part of what people call insurance these days, but in fact it isn't one. It's just a social solidarity scheme, and no one has the balls to call it that way, so it gets mingled into insurance. Without getting into whether it's good or bad, it's just not the true meaning of the term "insurance."
- izacus 7y agoIf "everyone" uses a word for something, then that is de facto the "true meaning" of a term.
- torstenvl 7y agoNo. Even for vernacular natural language, it only matters what native speakers think. Wéijī will never quite mean "danger and opportunity," no matter how many people view it that way, because native Mandarin speakers don't view it that way.
- leetcrew 7y agoconstantly having the prescriptivism vs descriptivism debate is tiresome and pedantic. what we call "health insurance" clearly works very differently than any other kind of insurance I'm familiar with. it's not wrong to try and maintain the distinction between two different concepts.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoYou are definitely not a scotsman.