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The thing is that there is a large body of services and capital investments that are most efficiently - for both economic and political reasons - conducted by a
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
The thing is that there is a large body of services and capital investments that are most efficiently - for both economic and political reasons - conducted by accountable, democratic institutions. The canonical example are roads and firemen but also education and public transit and healthcare and some kinds of housing.
Extremely debatable.
That said, public education is such an evident failure that it's doing you a disservice to list it. Alternatives like Sudbury schools tend to be privately or cooperatively owned institutions.
(Also, most firefighters are volunteers, who need not be publicly funded.)
- grhino 11y agoDo volunteer firefighters provide their own equipment as well? I could believe that most firefighters are volunteer. I would be surprised to hear that most firefighting was volunteer.
- djrogers 11y agoMost firefighters calls are not to fight fires - they are acting in a paramedic role with very loud and big transport. This isn't an anti-firefighter screed, but 75% of what they do can be (and is in some cases) done more efficiently by ambulance crews.