{"id":28504,"date":"2020-09-17T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=28504"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:49:29","slug":"fewer-retail-stores-in-cities-due-to-higher-insurance-rates-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/fewer-retail-stores-in-cities-due-to-higher-insurance-rates-going-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer retail stores in cities due to higher insurance rates going forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“$1 billion-plus riot damage is most expensive in insurance history” <\/a>(Axios):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vandalism and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police will cost the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent history, Axios has learned.<\/p>

Why it matters: The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful<\/strong>, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims \u2014 eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Shops in the suburbs weren’t torched or looted, right? Rational insurance companies will therefore charge higher rates going forward for retail stores in urban areas. Combined with the extra risk of being shut down due to coronapanic, the risk of losing customers as richer city-dwellers flee during coronapanic<\/a>, and the higher minimum wages that some cities mandate relative to surrounding suburbs, why would rational business owners decide to continue operating a lot of these shops? So the white suburbanites who came into the cities to join the protests, ostensibly to help their Black brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters, will have ended up permanently degrading city life for Blacks of all gender IDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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