• DempstersBox@lemmy.world
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      You know, not everyone living in Florida has a beachfront vacation home, right?

      Not everyone living there chose to live there either.

      Did you know people can be born places? With family? That aren’t rich?

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      “Why should I have to pay for YOUR kids to go to school?”

      “Why should I pay for social safety nets when I’m well off?”

      “Why should I pay for roads when I don’t drive?”

      Because there will come a day where you may need the help, and it wont be there cause your pigheaded myopia, and then you’ll cry and cry about the unfairness of it all and maybe, just maybe, if you have a functioning neuron in that brain of yours, that maybe the fraction of a cent of yours that actually goes to help people isnt such a bad thing afterall

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        Unbounded risk-taking such as insuring people building houses in risky locations will lead to bankrupting the country.

        If insurance is going to cover it, then there needs to be stipulations on the home owner to reduce the risk - for example, building the home out of steel and concrete, raising the structure high enough so that floods and storm surges cannot reach indoors, etc.

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          Unbounded risk-taking such as insuring people building houses in risky locations will lead to bankrupting the country.

          Bullshit.

          Its a drop of piss in the ocean compared to all the ridiculous shit America wastes money on every single goddamn day.

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          Oh the hell it will.

          We could have a functional colony on the moon and mars if NASA got a quarter of the military budget.

          Maybe, just maybe, we stop spending billions to kill brown people for no good reason, and spend a tiny fucking fraction of that to make our own part of the world Less of a shithole, instead of more

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              28 days ago

              Are you stupid?

              The vast majority of people living in Florida, didn’t build a fucking house there.

              Most of the people living there, can’t afford a house.

              Like yeah, fuck the vacationers, they’re probably the reason we’re reading an article about house insurance. But the people who were born there with all their family and friends there, what the fuck are they supposed to do