JerameeIf Ayn Rand's own life wasn't enough to show that libertarianism is a failed idea, we now have further evidence.
Dendan Setia (Nins)@Jeramee
Man...
>The obvious solution would be for Rio Verde Foothills to incorporate, form a water district, and find its own reliable supply… but it turns out that might involve taxes, so the whole proposal collapsed. I’m not making that up:
I wonder if we should just start calling taxes 'subscriptions'. 🤔
I'm pretty sure that has been done with volunteer fire departments. But you have the same problems. A subscription model increases the cost because not everyone wants to subscribe. Then, eventually, the fire department lets an unsubscribed house burn down unnecessarily, so people get angry at the department.
These libertarian models ignore the fact that humans aren't good at predicting long term cost benefits individually. Short term greed will always make bad results.
@Jeramee
Totally agree at the end there. And making it explicitly assumed to be opt-in by calling it subscription will definitely lead to those historical examples. I'm just riffing that these same ppl wouldn't blink at an Apple TV subscription and suchlike 😁 but who knows maybe if that even happens you'll have to do 'prestige water' and 'standard water' levels. And then up sounding like a water board anyway, haha.
Totally agree at the end there. And making it explicitly assumed to be opt-in by calling it subscription will definitely lead to those historical examples. I'm just riffing that these same ppl wouldn't blink at an Apple TV subscription and suchlike 😁 but who knows maybe if that even happens you'll have to do 'prestige water' and 'standard water' levels. And then up sounding like a water board anyway, haha.
On that level, I think you're 1,000% right. And it also says something about how immature the libertarian mindset is that we'd have to play games, like "here's comes the airplane when feeding a child," just to get them to be reasonable.
Your comment reminded me of a story I read from Kentucky several years ago where that happened.
@Jeramee
Would love to read it if you can share 😁
Would love to read it if you can share 😁
@cendawanita
This story really shows the problems. $75 is a more than a day's pay for many people, and how often does one's home catch fire? Humans are bad at assessing this type of catastrophic, long term risk.
@Jeramee
Omg this isn't even an unsolved problem! And with the most classic of examples, the fire service 🫠🫠🫠
Omg this isn't even an unsolved problem! And with the most classic of examples, the fire service 🫠🫠🫠