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-40 points

You buy insurance like many other people, most of which won’t have a fire. You call them, they come.

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From where? You didn’t fund enough to have a fire department. And since you’re so clever as to not pay for support services, wait to you see the cost of your exceptional insurance…

Folks, we either have a sovcit who discovered this group or an anarchist-type just stirring up shit.

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Also, what road are the trucks gunna drive on? Cause the trucks are gunna have to carry their own water since there’s no public water lines running for them to use. And all that weight is gunna be hell to drive on dirt roads

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11 points

Just have trucks with tracks, then they don’t need roads.

See? There’s always an easy solution!

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19 points

This person said below that people should be forced to live in an ancap world even though almost no one wants to, so I think this is some weird form of fascism.

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You mean he wants the rest of us to live under neo-feodalism?

There’s no such thing as anarcho-capitalism 🤭

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You are ignorant of basic facts about markets. You guys need to go out more, you’d understand why the world is the way it is, and what can be done about it, instead of fantasizing about dystopic worlds. You really are the flat-Earthers of politics.

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That’s enough thank you.

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Ah yes, insurance against fire. I can’t see a problem ever happening there.

Wait, that’s already a problem?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-23/state-farm-wont-renew-72-000-insurance-policies-in-california-worsening-the-states-insurance-crisis

So if I get this right, your solution is to do something insurance companies aren’t willing to do.

Should they be forced to?

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2 points

Adding to the pile of stupid questions:

Why don’t the insurance companies just offer it at a higher rate, until it’s profitable for them?

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No, it’s not, the article is obviously not in ancap context, it’s in USA, California, 2024 context.

Humanity is doomed.

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19 points

What would make insuring such homes profitable in your world?

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5 points

I’m starting to think this person isn’t just trolling…

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18 points

If you exchange “buy insurance” for “pay taxes”, you’re awfully close to reality!

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-15 points

The difference is that you choose the insurance company.

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11 points

Did you really choose which firestation was gonna send a truck?? That’s the problem with using a “free market” argument for emergencies, yeah sure it’s great to choose between different emergency providers when there’s nothing happening.

But when a fire starts or you have a heart attack? The nearest Ambulance or Fire Truck that can get you is coming to get you, and you don’t (and can’t) have a choice in which Hospital they’re gonna rush you to, or which fire station that truck came from, all that matters is that it came

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You can’t be sure of that. Some companies have monopolies on certain goods/services.

One thing you can be assured of is that it would be way more expensive, and probably shittier, as is the case with that kind of privatized services.

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