twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to damm by oolong

his name is about as close as you can get a name to Luigi's Mansion without being nonbinary

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twovests wrote

Reply to been getting real into bananas lately by Jenheadjen

i love bananas. cheap, they come in "bunches" so you can "buy a bunch" and know exactly what that looks like, and nutritious.

If they go too long, they don't get moldy, they just become perfect for banana bread.

the peel is edible if you're a freak, and perfect for physical comedy if you're willing to risk a personal injury lawsuit.

thank you for sharing such that i might reflect on the venerable banana

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Math is important because I was radicalized about insurance when I learned math by twovests

While I generally agree with this, I think the thinking of "How can we manage risk in one domain the context of capitalism" is small, while socialism answers "How can we most effectively manage humanity's resources."

If you and 20 friends decided to mutually insure, say, your $500 cell-phones, you'd have some realities to contend with: What do we price it? How do we protect against fraud? How do we balance that with avoiding falsely identifying legitimate claims as fraud?

Your small insurance company wouldn't be able to bring worldwide socialism. But it might be able to protect against your phone dropping in a river. That's, of course, assuming your insurance is a flatly-structured non-profit that exists out of that mutual interest in risk management.

... Maybe our economy should be flatly-structured existing out of mutual interest... But... That's also socialism.....

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