Actually folks will step up and fill those positions - in places like Afghanistan I think they call them warlords, in Central America I think they just call them gangs.Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
And they can probably hire more qualified applicants too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voluntary_City
Sometimes a useful resource for this sort of thing.
Well, if that is all they can afford to hire then I guess they will have to make do!
Part of what is wrong with this country is all the whining about things: "I don't have affordable healthcare! Getting cancer bankrupt me!" or "I lost my job because it was outsourced to Mexico!" or "Crime is bad and we don't have a police force in my city!"
Wah-wah-wah!
These whiners need a can-do attitude!
Poor rural communities that expect wealthy-urban-level response time and staffing are going to be disappointed.
There are big chunks of the day when my area will have only one deputy on-call. This means he is asleep at home, and the dispatcher will call and wake him if there is an issue. Anything not immediately pressing will wait until the next business day. We had a home invasion a few months ago, the dispatcher asked "well, are they gone?", and upon hearing they had left decided not to send someone until the next morning. Recent wealthy incomers to the community were horrified to learn that there wasn't a SWAT team waiting to roll out the door on 60 seconds' notice...
As long as your can-do is bigger than the can-do of the person who is trying take your can-do away from you, that'll work.
Anarchy is a viable model - but like most other systems it usually doesn't end well once oligarchy sets in.
Have the wealthy incomers hire private security. Problem-solved.
Or better yet! Have the wealthy incomers run for all the local offices, dupe the poor/uneducated electorate there so they vote for the wealth incomers, then have all the wealthy incomers raise the taxes on the poor/uneducated electorate. This way the taxes fund a police force that protects the wealthy incomers in a proper way and the poor/uneducated schlubs pay for it.
No need to reinvent the wheel.
Big words.
Most of the wealthy incomers are progressive Democrats, and expect services to magically appear and someone else to pay for them. So your "drive the working people off the island" scheme might hold great appeal. I'll see about working that into my next campaign pitch.
What can I say? I am a problem-solver.
For the record, I have been quite sarcastic in this thread.
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