Has that already happened with fire departments? Sure someone is probably corrupt, but they do a great job of keeping my house not on fire for free. I'd love M4A, even if middlemen skim off the top in the short term.

[–] stella@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.

There isn't a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't massive by today's standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.