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submitted 1 day ago by [M] to c/mop@quokk.au
 
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[–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Firstly...

Bankers never lie about money.

That's hilarious. Bankers lying and taking risks with mortgages is literally how the 2008 recession happened. And I guarantee you they didn't learn a thing from it, besides that they can be bailed out.

Insurers are the risk adverse ones.

Their entire business strategy depends on never paying out more than they get from you. And to do that they hire best of the best, cream of the crop scientists, mathematians, and statisticians to put together data just like this to determine how much they need to charge you to meet their profit margin based on your risk factors.

There's no way they'd miss the biggest single risk factor this century from their data. So if they're charging more, you bet there's good reason for it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Insurers are the risk adverse ones.

    Their entire business strategy depends on never paying out more than they get from you.

    Exactly, if they’ll even insure you at all expect a clause that allows them to deny claim for whatever you actually want to be insured for.

    Here in Denmark we have a huge problem with the westernmost coast of Jutland falling into the ocean. Guess where there’s lots of uninsurable houses. But for some reason people keeps buying them.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Ok but that chart is about insurance premiums, not home loans, and also shows landlocked states rising just as much....

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    and also California is somehow lowest, kinda agreeing with the climate change denier

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    Yea im not a climate change denier and i know what the data says. I was just pointing out that the guy in the pic had a shit response by showing an unrelated chart that doesnt even correlate with rising sea levels.

    Also,to the original denier in the pic, banks probably dont care because they know that the fed will just bail them out if all their housing collateral gets flooded.

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