You'd think so, but I suspect some insurance lobbyists took care of that long ago and made it mandatory. I would actually be surprised if you could build anything in a metropolitan city without greasing ALL of the palms, and that includes the insurers.
Can't you just do what the government does and make some up?
You've inspired my weekend homework assignment.
That was my response about 12 years ago. There are no expletives to adequately describe my reaction today.
I posted a detailed response nearby.
But on a global scale.
Modern Monetary Theory is a bastardized version of Keynesian economics adopted by almost all nations with a central bank. Basically, it says that you don't have to worry about things like budgets if you can just print more of your own currency.
That graph shows just how insane our government and bankers have become in the past decade+, where more than half of all the money in circulation was been created out of thin air in just the past year or two.
It works great until it doesn't. Those at the top of the capital structure amass huge wealth gains, while the rest of us see all of our savings dissipate due to lower purchasing power.
If you have more money chasing after the same amount of goods, the cost of those goods is always going to go up. We're seeing the beginnings of impactful inflation already at the gas pump, grocery store, apparently the plywood store, and especially in asset prices like stocks and real estate.
This is nothing compared to the hyperinflation that is coming.
And they can't ever proclaim that racism has ended, because then how will they fool their sheep and rake in that sweet racist grift money? It's like the gift that keeps on giving, but the implications are that they have no incentive to do anything to address actual racism. If the world woke up tomorrow and everyone just stopped caring about skin color, they'd be out of a job.
Diving is the source. Underwater is where God came back into my life. It's also where I lost fear, and that's incredibly empowering.
Are you allowed to build without insurance?
If so, whomever is spending money to do any rebuilding is a moron.
Yup, I'd rather fight them here.
Thanks for the validation of my amateur observation.
It's really sad.
I've posted that link several times here.
You're the first to notice that VERY important little detail.
Wish I had time to elaborate, but feel free to take the ball and run with it.
I like the gist of your comment, but have one question; where are we going to flee to?
What amazes me is that any insurance company would insure rebuilding over the past number of months, knowing the Chauvin trial was coming up.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with this:
I was at this event on Wednesday.
It was a great event and pretty informative. For those of you who think the judicial system is f*cked beyond all redemption, this video will both confirm and deny your opinion.
I highly recommend watching this and I'll be posting videos of the other speakers when I get the email notices.
Yeah, Obama was a huge catalyst.
This was the incident, very early in Obama's term, where we knew he was a race-baiting piece-of-sh*t: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gates-crowley-expected-to-share-beer-with-obama-at-white-house-early-this-week
I've been diving all over the world. A lot of the best dive spots are in sh*tholes, so I've been a minority quite a bit, and I don't stay in fancy hotels, preferring to try to get to know the places I visit. Racism exists everywhere, but it is almost never manifests itself openly. It is only in the US' cities that I actually see open hatred.
My nephew, who I'm tight with, is a year older than you. I explained this stuff to him when he was about 15. Since then, he's spent a few summers in some sh*tholes doing volunteer work to tighten his resume. After a summer in the D.R., he came back and told me I was correct.
The racism here is mostly manufactured, yes, but it's also very different because it is being used for political power. There's an entire homegrown shakedown industry.
Is there a corollary to your formula regarding deportation?
If I start singing your lyrics when that song comes on, I'm going to be a bit upset with you.
After I stop laughing.
You may have just ruined my favorite Metalica song.
Dude is the Undefeated Champion.
Of course the data is suspect. Perhaps we should just put a permanent asterisk next to all covid "data".
You may appreciate this story.
9 years ago, when I decided I had enough control of my schedule to take care of a dog, I went looking. Month after month of hitting all of the animal shelters came up fruitless.
I wanted a puppy, so it could learn my habits, not somebody else's. I didn't care about sex or breed, I just wanted a mid-sized dog that would be good in the water, as I live at the beach. And I wanted a rescue dog.
All of the shelters are filled with older pit bulls, some almost exclusively. Because we have a lot of military and hispanics in San Diego, there's a huge pit bull population here, and many are abandoned. Anyone who is going to be around other people, especially kids, should not adopt a 2nd hand pit bull because you don't know how they've been treated or trained previously. It's just not worth the risk.
Because of this, there are very few other breeds available for rescue. What happens to the other breeds who are in need of rescue is not a subject I want to get into. It's pretty sad.
I ended up with a 2 month old lab/vizsla mutt. Best thing I have ever done.
This has been the inevitable conclusion ever since banks figured out they could create money out of thin air and sell it to our governments while they just sit back and collect interest. Going off the gold standard sped up the demise, but it only really got going when the Fed really started pumping the printers to solve crisis that the Fed had created (intentionally).
But there are solutions. There will be a new monetary system in the next few years, one way or the other.
The bad guys want this: https://www.weforum.org/great-reset (Caution; you won't sleep after reading this).
But there are benign solutions. An asset-backed crypto currency makes a ton of sense. We just need to take back our country and destroy the central banks.
At the end of the day, money only has value because we pretend that it does.
Ps. The Founding Fathers had numerous debates about the subject, so none of this is new at all.