Because if the insurer doesn’t have to pay out anywhere near enough to cover the cost of a natural disaster in, say, the Louisiana region because of government “aid”

Can you imagine the difference in premiums?

Or on the effect of people choosing to live in those localities?

AAAAAHHHH!

1!!11!1

yes

Right?

yup

I agree completely that government fucks up the metrics to make it seem more like a crisis

But on the other hand, they’re also screwing it up by covering at least part of the cost of natural disasters

i am always under the assumption

if there’s a way to screw it up

govt will find it

It’s like Murphy’s law but for government

makes more jobs for them

We should dub it Marx’s law

yes

Or Sowell’s law

Cause ... I’m not sure if it’s him or Friedman that summed up government for me

i like that you’ve demonstrated they have an incentive to mess up the same stats in two seemingly contradictory ways too

“If you want to perpetuate a problem, you create a government department dedicated to solving it”

I think it was Sowell but I’m not 100% certain

i’ll use that and say “a man much smarter than you’ in conversation

sounds a lot like Sowell or Friedman. Could be either very easily

I think it was Sowell talking about government education

he has a lot of good zingers

he said that a California land development bureau would have to hire a Blue Ribbon Committee to find out why the ground is wet after a rain

....

in response to why affordable housing initiatives drive up cost of housing

You don’t know how hard I just laughed at that

😈

same here, glad i got to carry his msg

You in the real off hours server mate?

aye

We usually shit talk about issues like this nearly everyday in voice

So if you have time come join in, it’s always fun to have more people

That does sound fun

I usually don’t have a mic handy but I’m interested to try a didferent chat dynamic

especially one without so many backsapces

amen

Haha