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So you wouldn't invest unprotected. Insurance was invented to solve this specific problem: socializing the costs of unlikely but disastrous occurrences. The v
by Empact 18y ago
So you wouldn't invest unprotected. Insurance was invented to solve this specific problem: socializing the costs of unlikely but disastrous occurrences.
The vast majority of companies will be fine the vast majority of the time, so there's plenty of opportunity for an organization to sell inexpensive insurance which covers for those rare cases where the pot boils over.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoWhat you're suggesting sounds suspiciously like AIG and the whole "credit default swaps" mess. What about when the insurance company goes under and needs a bailout?