ACanadianReader@19 wrote: I once saw a hilarious British video on how a privatized fire department would work. It showed people sticking their heads out the windows of a burning building and shouting down to the firemen who were holding a blanket that people could jump into. The firemen kept running back and forth as the people shouted out larger sums of money that they were willing to pay to be saved.

If memory serves, that’s exactly how the Roman Senator Crassus’ private fire department did work. When a fire broke out, his slaves took the fire-fighting equipment to the site, and asked for a fee. If the property owner couldn’t or wouldn’t pay, the fire department stood and watched the place burn to the ground. So now the Crass Brigade are perfectly content to stand by and watch people die of disease if the profit isn’t high enough. In fact, there’s evidence that they’re stifling research and development that might reduce their profit by saving people. And the wing-nuts are perfectly happy with that state of affairs, as long as people they don’t like are the ones suffering and dying. Yech; that’s sick.

I once saw a hilarious British video on how a privatized fire department would work. It showed people sticking their heads out the windows of a burning building and shouting down to the firemen who were holding a blanket that people could jump into. The firemen kept running back and forth as the people shouted out larger sums of money that they were willing to pay to be saved.