Insurance
A real insurance-textbook quote about extinct human species inspires gravestones blaming their demise on poor risk management.
Content note: Gravestones / death (comic).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-07-13-insurance/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"Actual excerpt from a textbook on insurance: 'Other humanlike creatures, such as Homo erectus and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis failed to achieve the ultimate goal of risk management... survival.'"
[Gravestones] "H. ERECTUS — lived without a care; died without life insurance." · "H. S. NEANDERTHAL — 'let my life be a cautionary tale about risk management'"
Mourner: "If only they'd known about index funds... They might still be alive today."