"Landlords deserve tons of money for no effort because they take on the risks of homeownership"
Landlords when that risk manifests:
Which is hilarious before we even get to that step. Real estate is one thing where, to make money, you don't need to be intelligent or a risk taker or even have a lot of up front capital. You mostly need to have flexible ethics and the rest will work out.
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.
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!
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 they didn’t tax the fossil fuel industry that can shoulder a lot of the responsibility for this. In fact, they heavily subsidised it.
And my follow up will be: I could not care less about what this person thinks.
Oh I am all about 1%'er schadenfreude
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.
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!
Kinda ironic that the dude is called Wassermann which literally translates to waterman in german.
And, insurance companies cancelled fire coverage before the fire.
Lol is it really possible to withdraw from something like that? What's the point of having an insurance then?
How close before? Hours? Wouldn't surprise me
Ironic that his name is "water man"
Hey Keith, need some water, man?
I wonder if it is even real.
Multiple sources claim so.
Would not be surprising and hilarious if true.
This is definitely one I had to check lol
I didn't know private firefighters are even a thing.
In the land of the free, the goal is to privatize everything.
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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.>
I've never heard of them in the modern day, but I know that's how fire brigades started in the UK
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.
I've never seen one in the US, and upon further research, they don't really exist.
All that being said, if you're rich, you're more likely to have a firebreak created for you by landscapers. The city also creates firebreaks surrounding neighborhoods like the palisades.
There are private fire departments. They are owned by companies that own industrial facilities with high fire risk, that need immediate response, such as oil refineries, chemical plants, and and factories.
But you're right that there aren't private fire companies to serve anyone on demand. There are no manned fire trucks in LA waiting for a high enough bidder to respond to the fire.
There are private firefighting companies, and in this fire any efforts they could add would have been welcomed, since the strong winds prevented nighttime air assault. But unless they had water-tank vehicles they would have been subject to the same problem of hydrants running dry from insufficient supply. Their best bet would be to pump from swimming pools. The multiple real Fire Departments would have been fine with being able to send their personnel elsewhere. I say "would have" because I just don't know if any were working there. I wouldn't be surprised if they were, though.
I suppose oil well firefighters like Red Adair and similar specialized companies could be counted as private firefighters.
They are. The ones I know mostly contract with states or federal governments to do wildland fire fighting but I've read about private firefighters operating in neighborhoods in California a few years ago.
Montana's new senator (Sheehy) made his money with a private aerial firefighting company.
Private emergency services are always a thing, which is why defunding emergency services is always a bad idea -yes, even cops - because the people in charge can usually pay for their own. They don't GAF when you're no longer safe, because they can be.
defunding**
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.
I knew that motherfucker was right-wing when someone posted the second tweet yesterday.
Wow, you were alone in thinking that. For everyone else, including the person who posted it, the idea that the person asking for a libertarian fire department would be right wing was completely unthinkable..but you, you alone cracked the code.
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:
You see, the trick to not having leopards eat your face is in fact to intentionally starve them, and then brag about it publically!
Oh how the turntables…
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.
Well, not solved with money while the fire is on its way. But people with money are on the whole not big prepper types, it seems.
Just wait until it is about a total war economy, and that their kids and grandkids have to go fight drones.
It will be too scary to repost at, for sure.
I'm all for schadenfreude, but this isn't a logical inconsistency - he is demonstrating his money going to private industry rather than public services. Or at least, his desire to do so.
Usually private fire brigades ask a subscription to be ready or they are permanently employed to be on location on factory terrains for example. Turns out haggling over the price at the moment itself or fighting in court over the costs and damages afterwards doesn't work so great.
Oh no doubt. He's expecting a pre-established public service. But looking to hire a private service and not wanting to pay taxes for a public service is at least more principled than most Republicans today.
