For some time, my bud Carey and I have been trying to think of a side project. It needs to make us a lot of money, but require us to do only a trivial amount of work, if any. That’s not hard, right?
Well, today, inspiration struck, and I expressed our business plan as succinctly as it can possibly be expressed: “We need to stoke an irrational fear, and then sell protection against that fear.” ‘Course, then we figured out that palm readers, fortune tellers, and the like were already doing exactly that.
Still, we’re thinking on it. So far we’re kicking around meteorite strike insurance, demonic possession insurance, spontaneous human combustion insurance, killer robot insurance, urban bear attack insurance, and maybe a couple of others I’m forgetting at the moment.
See you on the other side, where I’ll be lighting my cigars with $100 bills made on the backs of the unbelievably gullible.
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Count me in on Spontaneous Human Combustion Insurance sales. That’s a gold mine waiting to happen.
Yeah, we think so too. Consider yourself in. Which sounds the best: $19.95 monthly, $59.95 quarterly, or $239.95 annually?
I think $59.95 quarterly is the safer bet. While they all even out in the end, for some reason I think we could sucker more people–I mean be more successful by collecting four moderate payments a year rather than 12 installments or one lump sum.
Should we also consider selling extended policies covering spontaneous pet combustion? “For just an additional $19.95 quarterly, know that your beloved Fluffy is safe…”