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Environment & Energy

bucolic_frolic

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1. I suspect any social safety net, public or private - government or insurers

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed May 18, 2022, 08:56 AM

May 2022

will not be there for small claims, and will only be there for contractual claims that are moderate. Calamaties are too widespread and expensive and disruptive to safety nets to be covered. Survival-of-the-fittest prevails!

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