People often say that as a kind of half joke but it really is true. I spent a month without fire/police/emt, electricity, tv, radio and all that after a really bad natural disaster a couple years ago. It was pretty great and I didn't miss any of it. The only things I really trully regretted not having were a bit more preparation for my emergency systems and a fully functioning emergency hospital because you're obviously more likely to get injured when you're doing backbreaking physical labor. Even this covid lockdown thing was great as far as not having government services. LIfe just went on as normal during that government shutdown a while back too. These people don't matter for anything except public works and having a judicial system in place to punish violent criminals. I mean that as no disrespect to the great people working service jobs or even the military because I would hire them to do those jobs anyway even without any government being involved. The scariest thing (besides people losing their livelihood because they're not allowed to work and their businesses are shut down capriciously) about the covid shutdowns was farmers LITERALLY burying crops for a government bailout because there was a real possibility the population could starve to death just like in the holodomor and even that was government induced.
I want super militarized police. They should only come out when shit is real.
Nationalizing fire departments was a subsidy for insurance companies. In order to protect one building you really have to protect the whole block.
The same goes for security. You can see this when a celebrity's security detail moves into an area and calls the neighbors to tell them they are protected too. They have to secure a larger area than the house itself, and they want the neighbors to participate in the effort.
People will naturally self organize to cover these things in interesting and exciting ways. Markets are fucking awesome.
People often say that as a kind of half joke but it really is true. I spent a month without fire/police/emt, electricity, tv, radio and all that after a really bad natural disaster a couple years ago. It was pretty great and I didn't miss any of it. The only things I really trully regretted not having were a bit more preparation for my emergency systems and a fully functioning emergency hospital because you're obviously more likely to get injured when you're doing backbreaking physical labor. Even this covid lockdown thing was great as far as not having government services. LIfe just went on as normal during that government shutdown a while back too. These people don't matter for anything except public works and having a judicial system in place to punish violent criminals. I mean that as no disrespect to the great people working service jobs or even the military because I would hire them to do those jobs anyway even without any government being involved. The scariest thing (besides people losing their livelihood because they're not allowed to work and their businesses are shut down capriciously) about the covid shutdowns was farmers LITERALLY burying crops for a government bailout because there was a real possibility the population could starve to death just like in the holodomor and even that was government induced.
I want super militarized police. They should only come out when shit is real.
Nationalizing fire departments was a subsidy for insurance companies. In order to protect one building you really have to protect the whole block.
The same goes for security. You can see this when a celebrity's security detail moves into an area and calls the neighbors to tell them they are protected too. They have to secure a larger area than the house itself, and they want the neighbors to participate in the effort.
People will naturally self organize to cover these things in interesting and exciting ways. Markets are fucking awesome.