I’m generally pro-market/capitalist but for different reasons than libertarian idealists who think the market will magically fulfill a function like weather service or environment more “efficiently.” Which means I’m pro-state in more cases, and *different* cases.
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It would naturally be a consortium of PE types who also own private prisons and wilderness interface real estate who bid for the firefighting business. They’d figure out a way to keep rich areas clean and avoid instrumenting poor areas with sensors.
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And then of course they’d financialize it somehow and sell subprime fire-risk bonds on international markets.
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The low-tech inefficiency of state agencies is often a feature. They are slightly likelier to fail in ways that randomizecthe social cost fallout. But really we need something better than markets and states for these social-cost-dominant problems.
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Any situation where it’s significantly easier to capture the upside and distribute the downside unevenly in hidden places full of people who can’t easily complain (crony oligarch high-capex sectors basically) needs a new kind of post-state/post-market solution.
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This is one reason I’m getting interested in low-cost networked sensors. Cellphone cameras have shown that low-cost sensor networks are the worst nightmare of both repressive states AND crony-capitalists. More sensors, more widely distributed. Sonic screwdrivers for everybody.
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Have you ever read Jane Jacobs' Systems of Survival? It changed all my thinking on this.
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Private Equity of Public Services already underway in many parts of the country This Is Your Life, Brought to You by Private Equityhttps://nyti.ms/2au6RvK
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Alternatively, if the response to forest fires was to privatize forests, there’d be a natural incentive for the companies to preserve the forests and prevent fires. Assuming the forest was full of resources companies wanted to maintain.
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