I think a missing piece of this analysis for the present is the way that hyper-skepticism can come back around and make you just a different type of mark. Sovereign citizens, for example.

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Edman274 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People that don't buy insurance because they think it's a scam, then end up impoverished after a foreseeable accident or theft, as a more common one.

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carlosjobim 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Foreseeable accident?

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zoklet-enjoyer 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not buying flood insurance while living in a flood plain is an example I've seen in my city

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63stack an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I thought you can't even get that if you are in an area that is often flooded.

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macintux 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How many renters have a useful amount of renter's insurance?

	▲	sq_ 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Echoing a sibling comment, lots of landlords require it now, and the basic packages that insurers offer you as a bundle with auto or other forms of insurance are pretty decent, depending on state. Typically seems like $100-200 per year for coverage that would handle the loss of most of one's possessions, provided you don't get screwed by "well, you don't have the receipt" or "we only cover water ingress, not floods or leaks".
	▲	zoklet-enjoyer 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Probably a lot? I've moved around a bunch over the past 20 years, so have had several landlords. I think all of them for the past decade have required proof of insurance when signing the lease. I don't think anyone I rented from required it before 2018ish

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kerblang an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't there is some threshold of extreme skepticism at which someone suddenly reverses polarity under skeptical duress and flips over into a mark. Rather, you just have a mark trying to be good at skepticism and failing horribly.

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MoltenMan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think this makes sense as part of the existing 'skeptic cost'

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mnky9800n 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sovereign citizenry is such a strange thing to me. It’s all the parts of a conspiracy theory with none of the interesting things like aliens or lizard people. No those are replaced with strange interpretations of laws and ordinances.

	▲	Muromec an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's not strange really, it's tax evasion with an addition of larping to not feel bad. Oppressive government is in fact out there, but you feel that you can neither challenge nor escape it, so it's just that -- sublimation of sorts

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dooglius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What exactly is hyper-skeptical about them?