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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s always weird trying to put in perspective how valuable the things we waste are. Like to us, butter is a couple dollars, cuz it’s never not there, we don’t have to think about how much butter there is. There is no other tangible cost than the simple dollar value. So like if you compare it to going to see a movie in the theater, the dollar value kind of makes sense of using this butter for entertainment and teaching. But if butter didn’t feel potentially unlimited to us, the cost might then not feel worth it, even if the dollar value didn’t change.



  • The only reason it’s unsustainable is because they are trying to charge less than they should for insuring something in these locations, not built to survive the hazards of them. If insurance companies would stop spreading the cost around to make insuring these properties not cost as much as it should, it would work as the incentive it is supposed to be to change behaviour. By spreading the cost out to people not affected by high risk, they are punishing good behaviour and rewarding bad behaviour.

    If they charged the premiums that it would actually take to insure these places based on their risk and their risk alone, it would either be sustainable, or no one would want to pay it… either way, it solves the problem.