Richard Canfield explains mutual insurance as a voluntary cooperative pool where members signal their care for family by protecting against uncertain futures. He connects this to infinite banking principles and notes Nelson's earlier focus on mutual insurance as foundational to the approach.
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Mutual insurance is free. People in free contract with one another in a voluntary basis. So you have a pool of individuals, it's managed by administrators, and all that good stuff. But to enter the pool, essentially you need to think enough about others to even ask for entry. The virtue of an application for life insurance in a mutual insurance pool is already saying to the world, to some degree, I care about my family, I care about others enough that I want to support and protect them against an unknown future, and to set up the best possible outcome comes regardless of what may come for me. I think at my core, I believe that there's other reasons why Nelson focused on mutual insurance, but I really firmly do think at the core that there was something to that idea.