> That's just not true. Some things in life are abundant and need no pricing and have nothing hidden.
Citation needed. What are such things?
Citation needed. What are such things?
Either "free" is effectively meaningless or our world is full of free things. Uncompromised free things. Sunlight, air, water, fruit on wild plants…
I mean this is just nature. You know why Birds of Paradise have unbelievably fancy plumage? It's partly sexual selection, but the reason they can afford to spend 99% of their time doing bizarre dances and pruning their plumes and setting up their special dance areas is because their FOOD IS FREE basically. They live in an abundant ecosystem where it's trivial enough for them to get food. It just grows or is around, and when they want to eat, they just go eat. If that's not "free" then you're just denying the concept of "free".
I mean, let's go further, if truly, literally nothing is "free" than the word "free" has no meaning.
But like clean air is/was analogous to the abundant fruit tree in the comic I posted. And it TURNED INTO polluted air through people ruining it just like the fruit BECAME non-free when Og claimed it and made others work to get any.
"No free lunch" is an aphorism used by people who don't want to let there be free lunches. It's not inherently true.