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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

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48 points geox | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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jrflowers ◴[22 Apr 25 06:56 UTC] No.43759683[source]▶
A better way of phrasing this would be with life insurance, everybody else bets you’ll live.

With a tontine, everybody else bets you’ll die.

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1. rundmc ◴[22 Apr 25 20:50 UTC] No.43766162[source]▶
Well we will all die eventually.

Perhaps it's better to say that:

"With a tontine, others of the same age and sex bet that you’ll die before them".