No one gets paid for preventing problems. That may be true now but it seems like a recipe for disaster (check 3-4 ongoing disasters outside my window, yep). I

No one gets paid for preventing problems. That may be true now but it seems like a recipe for disaster (check 3-4 ongoing disasters outside my window, yep). I assume in earlier eras society prepared for disasters, paid people to prevent disasters and so-forth. Has something changed?