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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 03:59:38 EDT iona 🐝

   Why do they need to know this for the purposes of car insurance? Surely not because married people are "more stable, reliable etc" and they'll charge them less? https://social.coop/media/X-MaE7dBdlm37GBKous

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 04:15:16 EDT iona 🐝

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      That website with the fucking meerkat adverts says:
      > Marriage symbolises so many things, not least it demonstrates that you’re responsible and care enough about another human being not to do anything crazy or reckless. Figures suggest that couples and families make fewer expensive claims than singletons.
      https://www.comparethemarket.com/car-insurance/content/getting-married/

      Oh, FIGURES say that. That's okay then.

      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 04:19:19 EDT iona 🐝

         in reply to

         Car insurance is one of the nastiest, most opaque bits of black-box corporate bureaucracy most of us come across in our day-to-day lives.

         Male? Pay more. Female? Pay more. Poor or unemployed? Pay more. Self-employed? Pay more. Single? Pay more. Tenant? Pay more.

         The system rewards good, compliant behaviour - own home, married, two kids, Good Job - with lower premiums and penalises those who make different choices about what do to with their life.

         1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 05:48:08 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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            @iona I feel so privileged to never have had a car (so far)