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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.

Which is hilarious before we even get to that step. Real estate is one thing where, to make money, you don't need to be intelligent or a risk taker or even have a lot of up front capital. You mostly need to have flexible ethics and the rest will work out.

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.

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

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

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

Call Crassus!

Multiple sources claim so.

Would not be surprising and hilarious if true.

Hey Keith, need some water, man?

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

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

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

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.

I've never seen one in the US, and upon further research, they don't really exist.

All that being said, if you're rich, you're more likely to have a firebreak created for you by landscapers. The city also creates firebreaks surrounding neighborhoods like the palisades.