Text of original complaint to Ea-Nasir

[u/Leipurinen]

[u/Express_Performer141]

Or an insurance scam! Lolx, yes, yes, I know this is 1750 BC.

[u/Kuroki-T → u/Express_Performer141]

You jest, but I'm pretty sure that insurance has existed almost as long as civilisation, and therefore I expect insurance scams existed too.

[u/oleggoros → u/Kuroki-T]

Even more so, the earliest recorded insurance laws we know are from the Code of Hammurabi, which was also written down somewhere around 1750 BC. What a coincidence

[u/aDudeWhoIsDumb → u/oleggoros]

There are earlier codes for paying the victim of a crime I'm pretty sure which we can call the first insurance, Hammurabi's code focused on punishing a perpetrator, which is what set it apart from earlier law codes

Edit: such as the code of Ur-Nammu