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interesting branch, lets also consider surge insurance, or surge law enforcement

• inglor_cz 3y ago
  "surge law enforcement" In the immediate aftermath of the 2002 floods in Prague, a lot of police and even soldiers were deployed to the flooded areas to prevent looting. I think this was a sort-of surge law enforcement. The problem was anticipated and prevented, though at some extra cost.
  • rolph 3y ago
    the price could be set for regional differences such as response time, response duration, staffing numbers, of course unitary demands [swat;riot] would have a pricing scale as well.
    • inglor_cz 3y ago
      Well, there was a notorious situation in Ancient Rome where a private fire service would respond to fires and the owner of the fire service would bargain with the owner of the house. If the house owner was willing to sell him the house for a low price, the firefighters would be allowed to extinguish the fire. Otherwise, no. I don't think modern societies would tolerate that, but it is interesting to contemplate the idea that something like "surge pricing" was used in times when people didn't know what "zero" or "America" was.