And, insurance companies cancelled fire coverage before the fire.
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This is how Crassus got rich. When a house burned, he'd show up with his firefighters, and then buy the house for an insultingly low price, because, well, the house was on fire. Then his firefighters would put the fire out.
I dont remember that in morrowind.
will pay any amount
No, he won't. He will promise any amount and pay half of that to a lawyer to weasel out with some bullshit legalese.
Obviously in true ancap fashion, he'll need to put the agreed payment in multisig escrow up front. Only an outlaw would refuse!
"Landlords deserve tons of money for no effort because they take on the risks of homeownership"
Landlords when that risk manifests:
Not that it stops this guy from being a pos idiot, but he did say "any amount". Your critique would fit if he were complaining about local FD "not doing their job" or something.
The point of the post is that he claimed he doesn't pay taxes for services that, if they were more robust, could have prevented this desperate, hilarious tweet.
He (incorrectly) thinks he can buy his way out of it when it matters. And I have no sympathy for him, fwiw. If it was just his house burning, I'd bring popcorn.
Kinda ironic that the dude is called Wassermann which literally translates to waterman in german.
We laugh, but his follow up will be "see! You all paid taxes and your houses still burned down! Proof that the socialist experiment failed!"
And my follow up will be: I could not care less about what this person thinks.
Oh I am all about 1%'er schadenfreude
And they didn’t tax the fossil fuel industry that can shoulder a lot of the responsibility for this. In fact, they heavily subsidised it.
No taxes, no fire service.
Even if he's evading taxes we still have to put out the fire or it'll spread. Keith is painfully unaware of how externalities work.
Fair point, especially in fire-prone places. This is why we have public fire service.
Or painfully doesn't care about the costs to other people.
Ironic that his name is "water man"
Hey Keith, need some water, man?
Any amount, you say?
Even more than what it would cost in taxes?
Free market, baby! The goal is to make things cost everything that someone has. Bankruptcy for everyone!
Call Crassus!
I wonder if it is even real.
Multiple sources claim so.
Would not be surprising and hilarious if true.
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I didn't know private firefighters are even a thing.
That is one of the ways Marcus Crassus got rich in Rome.
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.>
He did pay for his greed. When he failed in his campaign in Parthia, the parthians put him to death by pouring molten gold down his throat.
Guillotines are out. Molten gold cleanses are IN.
It's completely natural and organic too
It's technically anorganic.
Cyberpunk Dystopian before Cyberpunk was even a genre
I feel like the modern version would be putting out the fire no matter what because it might spread to surrounding properties and then charging you for it anyway and putting a lien on the property if you can't pay.
I kinda figured the Cyberpunk in Cyberpunk Dystopia refers to a counter cultural movement within those societies.
🎶same as it ever was, same as it ever was...🎶
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In the land of the free, the goal is to privatize everything.
Land of the ~~free~~ fee
I've never heard of them in the modern day, but I know that's how fire brigades started in the UK
Correct, it's also the birth of insurance. People would pay a subscription style fee to the fire brigade so their house would be protected in case of a fire.
It's something satirised in The Colour of Magic, the first Discworld novel.
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There was a Roman who was rich because of private fire fighters, Crassus. Being the richest person in Rome's history, it will no doubt come as a shock when history shows he was instrumental in turning the Republic into the Roman Empire.
The cycle continues. Democracy will die because the rich hoard the power and money speaks loudest when it is accepted speech.
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Lessons learned
We hired a property management company, but eventually took it in-house. “That was a really big mistake,” Wasserman recounts. “ My wife and I were going up on weekends to rent units. We don’t really speak Spanish so we often relied on Google Translate to speak with potential tenants. We quickly realized that we weren’t the right people to manage those properties so we eventually sold those assets, too.”
Bakersfield taught them some important lessons:
9:36pm on Tuesday. Depending on where the house was there are some problems that can’t be solved with money.
That fire tore through Pacific Palisades. Aftermath looked like Lahaina. Literally no stopping it.
Oh how the turntables…
You see, the trick to not having leopards eat your face is in fact to intentionally starve them, and then brag about it publically!
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