Are Safe Until They Aren't

Auto-Renew

Borrow Time

Create Second Chances

Dampen Consequences

Defend The Present

Forgive

Organize Fear

Organize Uncertainty

Protect

Reward Documentation

Reward Preparation

Reward Redundancy

soften impact

insurance

tailgating

phone number

pick-up line

ether

anesthesia

atheism

disaster

one-liner

nonsense question

childbirth

healthcare

pregnancy

US healthcare system

parental leave

bubble wrap

economizing

health insurance

road rage

apartment

breaking up

dating

relationship

rent

role-playing

Thor

act of god

auto insurance

Incredible Hulk

dental insurance

capitalism

socialism

insurance industry

is a tool of government allowing individuals to have freedom and security for the whole.

Insurance is an important tool of government in modern, liberal societies because it preserves the free play of autonomous action within the economic and social spheres (allowing individual decisions about work, marriage, childbearing, purchase and sale, investment, etc.) while adding a safety net that removes some of the risks associated with these freedoms. Thanks to the operation of statistical laws and probabilities, populations can be governed through insurance in a way that leaves scope for individual freedom but ensures a level of security and stability for the whole (Hacking 1990). (Garland in Ericson 2003:60-1)

is damaging to the economy insofar as it can suck money out of innovation since it is money pulled out of circulation.

The 1870s were a period of insurance mania... a railroad and telegraph boom meant a strong economy and workers got suckered into insurance for every possible tragic event. But as insurance proliferated, more money was sucked out of the higher-risk innovation economy, and instead put in safe, but low-return investments. (Kessler 184)

is that in which we see how gaming becomes a symbol of the world.

insurance's general model is the game of chance: a risk, an accident comes up like a roulette number, a card pulled out or the pack. With insurance, gaming becomes a symbol of the world' (Ewald in F Effect 199).

is productive of two divergent worldviews. The uninsured estimate the probability of disaster as low... the insured as high.

. The Kunreuther research elicited from householders in danger zones their estimates of probability. Not surprisingly, the uninsured reported a much lower expectation of damage than the insured' (Douglas 1982:76).

is a form of gambling in which we bet our chance of escaping disaster, and win only when we lose

is a guarantee that, no matter how many necessities a person had to forgo all through life, death was something to which he could look forward to.

is an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table

is an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who owns the casino.

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