Revenue isn't lost, merely not gained. If you convinced all those people to stay home, you wouldn't see more money in the till. Theft-of-service isn't really t

Revenue isn't lost, merely not gained. If you convinced all those people to stay home, you wouldn't see more money in the till. Theft-of-service isn't really theft. It's a newer problem that required a separate body of law because the laws against theft don't apply to it. It only has the name it does because someone wanted to manipulate you into thinking of it in a certain way. They wanted to connect to your stone-age "MINE!" survival instinct rather than having to win the economic debate about the relative merits of making this economic good excludable.