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.

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Capitalism = efficiency, get with the program, if there was a more efficient use of their labour the market would have found it by now.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      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