Hiring a private fire crew costs thousands of dollars a day, and most work through government contracts or with insurance companies. Some wealthy property owners are calling them in directly.
Outside one mansion in a Palisades neighborhood with little or no fire damage, two men — who declined to provide their names — said they often contract with city governments, but this afternoon were protecting a single house. They said they did not know who the owner was, only that their company, National Wildfire Protection Service, had dispatched them there.
Billionaires will have giant water reservoirs installed beneath their mansions and have a fire truck available on-premise specifically for their house
Edit: I wanna say this isn't speculation or exaggeration. I used to serve old money people at a resort and would overhear conversations about this.
oh wow, that's 100BC rome level of social advancement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_to_power_and_wealth
I don't care if it's apocryphal I desperately need it to be true that he got molten gold poured down his gullet.
AFAIK it's a question of whether it was done to him before or after he died.
Capitalism fuckin rules oh yeah. Money? Home. No money? Fukkin die already lol
Capitalism = efficiency, get with the program, if there was a more efficient use of their labour the market would have found it by now.
Earlier tonight, I farted and it smelled distinctly like shit, which is how I knew I'd need to poop later. Later is now and now I'm pooping.
I'd like to submit this as part of economic theory about capitalism
Rejected for gommunism. Have you considered just thinking about what will make the most money in the current nanosecond?
How long until we're get a crypto fire fighting platform for putting stake into a fire department coin and signing smart contracts that trigger when a fire is detected in your home. Largest stake gets put out first.
