Mutual aid functions as informal insurance among individuals.
Evidence
As we have seen in section 2, mutual aid works as a form of mutual insurance. Individuals offer their contribution (helping others) and receive a benefit in exchange (being helped when they need it). — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 160
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s framing of religious solidarity as a mutual-aid/insurance structure that the fumi-e ritual was designed to disrupt — destruction of the insurance network, not merely of belief.
- XREF: connects to: Mutual insurance companies exemplify genuine mutualistic cooperation. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 76; Mutualism pays off through average expected benefits, not guaranteed returns — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 79; Marriage functions as private insurance when public and market insurance recede — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 888
Related
- Marriage functions as private insurance when public and market insurance recede (similarity 0.80)
- Mutualism pays off through average expected benefits, not guaranteed returns (similarity 0.80)
- Mutual insurance companies exemplify genuine mutualistic cooperation. (similarity 0.79)
- Insurance primarily generates collective solidarity rather than individual self-interest (similarity 0.78)
- Insurance historically functions as collective imagined solidarity, not individual self-interest. (similarity 0.78)