Request to world:
Would you kindly stop describing Obvious Good Things as Anticapitalist Works, lest I end up stopping supporting them despite their being Obvious Good Things.
(tl;dr My rationality is imperfect! Please help me not succumb to polit tribalism!)
Libraries, yes, definitely.
(I have yet to see anyone declare firefighting anticapitalist, although it would be entertaining to see the local Molotov cocktail enthusiasts square that with their other beliefs. Preserving private property from the flames is definitely a bourgeois value.)
@cerebrate @dashdsrdash my guess is somebody heard about the territorial fights between private fire fighting companies in mid-19th century New York City.
Or they heard about current private firefighters in Oregon:
https://www.opb.org/news/article/private-for-profit-wildfire-oregon-joesphine-county-rural-metro/
Eh, they're using a crocked business model. You could fix that in two changes.
As for the state government's unwillingness to cooperate with the private sector, fixing *that* is likely to be somewhat harder.
@cerebrate
You mean like libraries and firefighters?
Roger, wilco.