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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

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48 points geox | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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csense ◴[21 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43752696[source]▶
With regular life insurance, you bet you'll die.

With a tontine, you bet you'll live.

The latter seems much more sensible to me.

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1. LiquidSky ◴[21 Apr 25 16:02 UTC] No.43753476[source]▶
>With a tontine, you bet you'll live.

One problem is that everyone else in the tontine is betting you don't and sometimes are willing to act on that.

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2. rundmc ◴[21 Apr 25 18:29 UTC] No.43754957[source]▶
In theory yes, but in practice, no such cases ever existed.

A good example is that the collapse of Swiss Air created am accidental Tontine among its pension beneficiaries. Rather than trying to bump each other off, they meet up every year to hear to jointly toast the good news about their rising income: https://tontine.com/news/swissair-the-accidental-tontine/