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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

Keiss du Hurensohn

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

And, insurance companies cancelled fire coverage before the fire.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

He certainly managed to deserve his fate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

I dont remember that in morrowind.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Obviously in true ancap fashion, he'll need to put the agreed payment in multisig escrow up front. Only an outlaw would refuse!

[–] [email protected] 128 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Landlords deserve tons of money for no effort because they take on the risks of homeownership"

Landlords when that risk manifests:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 21 hours ago

Kinda ironic that the dude is called Wassermann which literally translates to waterman in german.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

And my follow up will be: I could not care less about what this person thinks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Oh I am all about 1%'er schadenfreude

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ironic that his name is "water man"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Hey Keith, need some water, man?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any amount, you say?

Even more than what it would cost in taxes?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Free market, baby! The goal is to make things cost everything that someone has. Bankruptcy for everyone!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Call Crassus!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No taxes, no fire service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Fair point, especially in fire-prone places. This is why we have public fire service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Or painfully doesn't care about the costs to other people.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wonder if it is even real.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

Multiple sources claim so.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Would not be surprising and hilarious if true.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I didn't know private firefighters are even a thing.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

That is one of the ways Marcus Crassus got rich in Rome.

The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.>

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus

[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He did pay for his greed. When he failed in his campaign in Parthia, the parthians put him to death by pouring molten gold down his throat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Guillotines are out. Molten gold cleanses are IN.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's completely natural and organic too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

It's technically anorganic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Cyberpunk Dystopian before Cyberpunk was even a genre

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I feel like the modern version would be putting out the fire no matter what because it might spread to surrounding properties and then charging you for it anyway and putting a lien on the property if you can't pay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I kinda figured the Cyberpunk in Cyberpunk Dystopia refers to a counter cultural movement within those societies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

🎶same as it ever was, same as it ever was...🎶

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the land of the free, the goal is to privatize everything.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Land of the ~~free~~ fee

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never heard of them in the modern day, but I know that's how fire brigades started in the UK

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Correct, it's also the birth of insurance. People would pay a subscription style fee to the fire brigade so their house would be protected in case of a fire.

It's something satirised in The Colour of Magic, the first Discworld novel.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

There was a Roman who was rich because of private fire fighters, Crassus. Being the richest person in Rome's history, it will no doubt come as a shock when history shows he was instrumental in turning the Republic into the Roman Empire.

The cycle continues. Democracy will die because the rich hoard the power and money speaks loudest when it is accepted speech.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250109184023/https://www.geltventurepartners.com/article/bakersfield-to-billions-gelts-keith-wasserman-gets-results

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Oh how the turntables…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You see, the trick to not having leopards eat your face is in fact to intentionally starve them, and then brag about it publically!

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