*Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured prop...

stcredzero on Dec 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I learned from reading a thousand emergency r...

Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured properties. Fire companies might have fought or sabotaged one another in order to win the right to put out a fire and get paid for it.

There are analogies (with smaller consequences) in private tow truck operation.