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by yellowstuff 2241 days ago
In layman's terms, it's like saying when your life insurance pays out $1M you have a 2500000% return on that month's $40 payment. It's not wrong, but if that's the only number you look at you'll always conclude that buying insurance is the road to riches.
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Life insurance is never the road to riches for the person it covers. :)
This is generally true, but that TV show "American Greed" has shown a number of folks that tried to get the riches without actually dying. I wonder how many have pulled it off.
Exactly