[kyleb]

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Explain how for-profit fire departments would be half-assed and compromise safety. Won't they want to do the job well so that they get good "business"?

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Around the turn of the last century we had for-profit fire departments. They did in fact do a half-assed job and compromised safety. That's why they were socialized.

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They were still managed by the municipal governments, and as such, ridiculously corrupt and inefficient. People seem to forget this about the 1900s.