GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

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    9 hours ago

    Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

    Why does anyone have anything? If they can afford to collect the things they are interested in, they will have many of those kinds of things.

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      5 hours ago

      What if they’re interested in naked pictures of children?

      I use an extreme example to point out that “the market will provide” is a terrible argument for the existence of anything.

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        The gulf of difference kind of undercuts your point in this case. One is undoubtedly immoral and illegal. And it doesn’t change that part of the answer why somebody would have either is because they want that, which says nothing about it being a good thing.

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          Mining several normal human lifetimes of metals and resources (and the CO2 released into the atmosphere in order to gather those materials) just for something to sit around unproductively is obviously immoral so I don’t understand the relevancy here.