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Arguably it's fixing externalities by correctly pricing risk.



Perfectly pricing risk implies omniscience (ie totalitarianism), which means that pricing risk is not an unquestionably good thing. Furthermore, markets can never be fully efficient, as that would imply P == NP. And so what is actuarially considered and ignored is itself a public policy choice. Stating things in the passive terminology of "the market" is just obfuscating that choice.




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