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Generally speaking. I (rarely) buy insurance for things like travel when I have reason to think that I have circumstances that may lead to a higher probability of collecting insurance than the average person automatically buying it has. And I certainly have things like homeowner's insurance where losses could be catastrophic.

But self-insuring for random relatively low-cost events mostly makes little sense for people as it does for companies.



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