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So I’m a bit torn on this one… your taxes pay for firefighters and police. However you have to have insurance in emergencies should your house burn down and you want to rebuild, or should something (like your car) get stolen. In all cases, you’re paying to support the infrastructure that provides you a safety net.
Without getting into the social economics of what in this world should actually be free, not paying for this seems to fall outside of that as the person refused to pay for the safety net until it was needed. That’s like trying to go to an insurance company after an accident to get coverage for that accident.
I feel like this is a brainworm capitalist take. The capability was there, were their profits actually more important than locating a kidnapped child?
It’s not like this was going to drain a risk pool of equity and put other people’s coverage at risk; literally ping the fucking car and find out where it is. The capabilities are already there. Save the baby.
Why is this even a question?
the service is not primarily for emergencies though. This is like cell phones. Phones not on contract are still required to be able to dial 911
Yeah this is exactly like the time Verizon refused to connect the firefighters in the middle of a wildfire because they had "used too many minutes" or something stupid like that. Megacorps need to be held accountable for emergency situations that don't fit their neat little T&Cs.
It's not like their GPS capabilities are disabled. They use it to track you and sell the data. If the life is someone was not in danger I would agree with you, but a life was at risk.
Insurance companies have no issue at all watching customers die instead of covering a life-saving surgery. A life being in danger means absolutely nothing to them.
Insurance companies have no issue at all watching customers die instead of covering a life-saving surgery. A life being in danger means absolutely nothing to them.
Emergency response and recovery has always been a problem of the commonwealth, not of individuals. Private insurance is and has always been a scam.
The cost of lives lost became conspicuous during the prison boom of the 1980s in which the Reagan—George H. W. Bush tough on crime policies literally more than decimated neighborhood populations. When police busted someone for possession, or loitering or contempt of cop (or was gunned down in spite) it wasn't just an alleged thug removed from society, but also typically an employee, a parent, a renter, a consumer who bought food and paid bills. (The You're Wrong About pod, amusingly on Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown gets into the 80s era conservative policies of broken window policing and harsh sentences for nonviolent petty crime)
So whenever someone's life is demolished by a natural disaster, an untreated health problem, a vehicle collision, a rampage killing, police on a bender, whatever, it hits like a bomb in the community. Almost everyone has others who depend on them, as family, as a friend, as a customer or laborer. And when something makes them disappear, collateral crises manifest like shrapnel.