Do lifeguards produce income? Tourists come to the beaches in numbers they might not without lifeguards. Don’t they produce as much revenue for the state in a productive sense as say a private sector tattoo artist? For tourism you probably want really good pro lifeguards. Liability? Deaths? They probably save more actual lives than firemen…
Just the job seems kinda fun. It’s probably kinda nervecwracking.
If it were privatized you’d have a big staff cheap high turnover lots of insurance and if deaths exceeded income you’d just go bankrupt. But maybe the wrongful death costs would be cheaper than the pro lifeguards. Or maybe it’s best to just have no lifeguards and let the strong survive.
But then I’d be dead. I was fished out of the pacific in the mid 70s got pulled way way out by the undertow.
