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Fee-for-service doesn't prevent ambulances from being considered a communal expense, it just makes sticky. There is nothing preventing a government from making ambulances equivalent to fire or police except the will.

From the article: "The most efficient way to fund ambulance services would simply be to pay for the option the way that options are normally paid for: with a premium, collected from everyone the service stands ready to rescue". In other words, taxation just like anything else we expect to be available to anybody.

I don't understand why taxes can be used to save property but not a person.

Those that are worth listening to often are.

Early in in my career I was part of a small company that developed a grid-based language for geospatial applications. The grid approach worked well for a lot of aspects, like implicit caching and concurrency. The cells could contain data that defined a view, such as a map or chart.

The downside of the grid was the same as it is with spreadsheets. The identifiers are not as visible as they are in a flat-file based programming language. What cell the interest rate in again?

It was amazing how well it worked even on state of the art Sun SPARCstation 5s at the time.

I may have misconstrued that ELI5 was snark for "elide", in the same vein as I18N or A11Y.

Present me wishes I could explain Explain ELI5 Like I'm 5 to my past self.