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Digging down power and fiber to a tower is not cheap.
Imagine someone never having used vim, maybe new to Unix overall, or new to terminal programs. Maybe this person is a student and is trying to learn. In some way he ends up in vim and it is not very intuitive how to exit it. The person searches for "how to exit vim" and find that SO thread and learns how to exit vim.
Does that sound so weird? If you act in a similar way towards colleagues trying to learn something new you should rethink your behavior.
His gym membership is probably not taxed as the government want to promote good health, but he has to pay tax for the car, free lunches etc.
VoLTE (Voice over LTE) have some other advantages over other calling applications. VoLTE is most likely on a very high QCI (priority), which means it probably has less delay and less packet loss than other traffic. VoLTE also often uses header compression over the air which means the packets gets a lot smaller and therefore also reduces packet loss. I don't think VoLTE usually have very high bitrate though, maybe around 10kbit/s. This is one area where other apps could be a lot better.
EDIT: I am of course only speaking about mobile calls. For landlines I agree that other applications provide better quality.