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In one of the richest cities, of one of the richest states, in one of the richest countries in the world, they will now charge $427 for calls to 911

San Jose is latest city to institute first responder fee for medical calls

In bad country they charge you money just to come to the scene of an accident.

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Now there needs to be an app called Speed Dial or something that charges a monthly subscription fee to dial 911. You see it provides value because instead of paying $427 per call you just pay $50 a month for the opportunity to call for free.
Putting private companies between you and basic services is not only moral, it's efficient.
- oh fuck... you know damn well someone is gonna do it
- This basically already exists. And then they send the wrong ambulance (because the prepaid ones are uncommon... Whoopsie!) and charge you anyway.

From the authors of "I can't afford an ambulance" comes the new smash hit "I can't afford 911 to be called"

JFC it's not even the first city in California to do this...other cities have implemented fees ranging from ~$200 to ~$800. "Won't deter people from calling 911" my ass. How about you fund your fucking fire departments instead of giving police billions each year to harass people?
- Cause rich people don’t get being broke.

What the fuck? Even if I saw someone get a CEO like Luigi did and for some reason I wanted to call the cops, I'd have to pay 427$?
- At least nobody will call 911 when San Jose city officials start getting shot up in our future dystopia
  
  New York Times article in 2040: “City Officials death rate has increased by 200% in the last decade, and no one’s calling 911, is social media to blame?”

I guess this will make them stupid poors think twice before (checks notes) calling an ambulance or the police in the case of an emergency??

With all this talk about the coming American Caesar, we failed to consider who will be the coming American Crassus.
- Caesar was trying to uphold the roman system but in a reformed way, very "I hate big coperation, lets split them up into smaller ones" aka StandardOil. The plebs were already eliminated as a political faction at this point. Crassus was the moderate and wanted primarily to bail out the equities in Asia and in general had big finance business connections in the east. So an american crassus would be a older billionaire moderate, run afoul of the american elite, who has big finance ties with europe. So maybe someone like Jeffrey Sachs? He isnt Crassus rich though and not really a politician.
  
  What is the modern day equivalent of drinking molten gold?

trauma team except you also still pay taxes for it
- I think given trauma team uses existing infrastructure you always also did. Also I don't imagine the San Jose EMTs are on trauma team level of professionalism, allthough I do not blame them for it