I think you are both kind of right. Insurance as we know it is rotten with debt and perverse incentives. But risk pooling is good, in and of itself.

In a post-debt world, I would imagine mutual aid organized on a pure equity basis with digital contracts.

Nothing's perfect, but that would be pretty good and should be scale with minimal moral hazard

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Risk pooling is indeed the desired outcome; holding reserves in Bitcoin makes insurer’s operations considerably simpler

Long way to go to get there

And now, it’s a quagmire of broken incentives that pervert the objective of pooling risk in the first place