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Those Roman firemen would only put out a fire if the owner promised to pay for the work.
Worse - to sell the building to Crassus outright.
Yet still a net gain to a society which lacked firefighters.
Just thinking about it as a distressed asset, it's pretty smart, really. The technology to put out fires far more efficiently existed, but the usual plan was (and is) just to avoid a fire starting, and even with Roman-level fire safety some people managed. Once you have a city of hundreds of thousands, it seems like you could earn your investment on firefighting equipment back pretty quickly.
It would take some gall to actually shake someone down over their burning house, though. I suppose private healthcare can be similar.
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