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My private firefighting service is struggling to get off the ground due to the government's anticompetitive price dumping at well below market rate.
by reitzensteinm 7y ago
My private firefighting service is struggling to get off the ground due to the government's anticompetitive price dumping at well below market rate.
- JorgeGT 7y agoFirefighting used to be a private service since Roman times until recently. Some old buildings in my city still bear a plaque saying "Fire insured" signaling that in case of fire, they should be saved. If not, the firefighters would just control the spreading to other (insured) buildings.
- mcv 7y agoCapitalism has taken a hit since Roman times.
- JorgeGT 7y agoYep. People talk about "peak capitalism", "late capitalism" etc. but they don't realize the world used to be much, much more extreme. Even until a few centuries ago, even public cops or prosecutors weren't a thing.
- mytherin 7y agoIsn't that why people call it late capitalism, because it is in its final phases? Pure, unfettered capitalism has been dwindling for a long time, mostly because of issues like slavery, severe exploitation of workers and forced child labor. Yet still many issues remain. I would say peak capitalism is colonial times, when companies had private armies and people were enslaved/massacred for profit.
- sfgweilr4f 7y agoMy private taxation system is having a few problems as well.
- anticensor 7y agoYou mean your private levying instrument.
- pests 7y agoYou joke about firefighting but you couldn't have picked a worse example. That is one of the major misconceptions people have about required local services - it's not required.
- reitzensteinm 7y agoThe only misconception here is the misconception that it's appropriate to label a differing opinion on governance a misconception.
- pests 7y agoWho labeled a differing opinion as a misconception?