Privatizing Emergency
Published 2024-03-18
We tend to think of coercion as only what governments do to us. Yet the private economy, where we spend most of our lives as workers and consumers, is shot through with coercion. And too often, our neoliberal order protects such coercion from legal and political challenge, thus giving rise to what Sohrab Ahmari calls private tyranny. One glaring symptom is the privatization of firefighting and other emergency services that used to be taken for granted as public goods. Drawing on his new book, Tyranny, Inc., Ahmari tallies the costs of such stealth privatization to patients, workers, taxpayers, and pension systems.
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