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Comment by elzbardico | Hacker News Reader

As it should be?

Yeah sounds like it's working as designed to me too

Indirectly it saves lives by making it hard for people to live in places where they are likely to get injured or killed by natural disasters.

Unfortunately, unless we install some kind of back-stop to facilitate people moving without ruining themselves (since the median American has a little under half their net worth tied up in their home), this will be a messy transition. You can't sell those houses to afford to move elsewhere since the whole problem is they can't safely be houses anymore (as the sage said, "Sell them to who, Ben? F**ing Aquaman?").

We will all pay the tab to restructure society to avoid this climate change effect, or we won't and we can expect the people who get screwed to not be particularly invested in being part of this society.

I didn't move to Florida for a reason. They voted for this repeatedly and are still doing so. No sympathy from me, sorry.

It's less about sympathy and more about practicality. How well does the country fare if an entire state suffers unmitigated disaster?

... and if the country is willing to let its state suffer unmitigated disaster, what good is the country?

(Your wise choices mean you will likely come out on top regardless of how high your mountain is relative to the people who chose poorly. How concerned are you that your peak could be a little smaller because you live in a society with 340 million other people, half of whom are below average intelligence... And those people need help?)

It could also incentive people to use constructive methods more adequate to the place where they want to build.

If you live in hurricane/tornado land, probably you'd better use bricks/concrete blocks in a sturdy steel or reinforced concrete frame with a deep foundation.

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