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And, insurance companies cancelled fire coverage before the fire.
This is how Crassus got rich. When a house burned, he’d show up with his firefighters, and then buy the house for an insultingly low price, because, well, the house was on fire. Then his firefighters would put the fire out.
I dont remember that in morrowind.
9:36pm on Tuesday. Depending on where the house was there are some problems that can’t be solved with money.
That fire tore through Pacific Palisades. Aftermath looked like Lahaina. Literally no stopping it.
Kinda ironic that the dude is called Wassermann which literally translates to waterman in german.
will pay any amount
No, he won’t. He will promise any amount and pay half of that to a lawyer to weasel out with some bullshit legalese.
Obviously in true ancap fashion, he’ll need to put the agreed payment in multisig escrow up front. Only an outlaw would refuse!
No taxes, no fire service.
Even if he’s evading taxes we still have to put out the fire or it’ll spread. Keith is painfully unaware of how externalities work.
Fair point, especially in fire-prone places. This is why we have public fire service.
I’d be willing to chip in for a plane to drop some raw potassium on his and his friends homes.
Nah, let’s not do this.
Is it the good stuff, the best quality potassium from Kazakhstan?
I’m not a chemist, what would happen ?
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“Landlords deserve tons of money for no effort because they take on the risks of homeownership”
Landlords when that risk manifests:
Not that it stops this guy from being a pos idiot, but he did say “any amount”. Your critique would fit if he were complaining about local FD “not doing their job” or something.
The point of the post is that he claimed he doesn’t pay taxes for services that, if they were more robust, could have prevented this desperate, hilarious tweet.
He (incorrectly) thinks he can buy his way out of it when it matters. And I have no sympathy for him, fwiw. If it was just his house burning, I’d bring popcorn.
Lessons learned
We hired a property management company, but eventually took it in-house. “That was a really big mistake,” Wasserman recounts. “ My wife and I were going up on weekends to rent units. We don’t really speak Spanish so we often relied on Google Translate to speak with potential tenants. We quickly realized that we weren’t the right people to manage those properties so we eventually sold those assets, too.”
Bakersfield taught them some important lessons:
Ironic that his name is “water man”
Hey Keith, need some water, man?
Just wait until it is about a total war economy, and that their kids and grandkids have to go fight drones.
It will be too scary to repost at, for sure.
We laugh, but his follow up will be “see! You all paid taxes and your houses still burned down! Proof that the socialist experiment failed!”
And my follow up will be: I could not care less about what this person thinks.
Oh I am all about 1%'er schadenfreude
And they didn’t tax the fossil fuel industry that can shoulder a lot of the responsibility for this. In fact, they heavily subsidised it.
I’m all for schadenfreude, but this isn’t a logical inconsistency - he is demonstrating his money going to private industry rather than public services. Or at least, his desire to do so.
Usually private fire brigades ask a subscription to be ready or they are permanently employed to be on location on factory terrains for example. Turns out haggling over the price at the moment itself or fighting in court over the costs and damages afterwards doesn’t work so great.
Oh no doubt. He’s expecting a pre-established public service. But looking to hire a private service and not wanting to pay taxes for a public service is at least more principled than most Republicans today.
You see, the trick to not having leopards eat your face is in fact to intentionally starve them, and then brag about it publically!
Any amount, you say?
Even more than what it would cost in taxes?
Call Crassus!
Free market, baby! The goal is to make things cost everything that someone has. Bankruptcy for everyone!
