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I don't care. The law should be free, period. Cheaper to pay once through the legislature than to put a paywall on it.

• criddell 5y ago
  Cheaper for some, more expensive for others. Even though you aren't likely to build a petroleum distillation column in your apartment, you don't mind helping to pay for the ongoing R&D involved in producing the engineering codes governing that equipment? For esoteric stuff like that, I kind of like the user-fee model. If we all pay, it feels like another subsidy to (in this case) oil and gas companies.
  • munk-a 5y ago
    There are wide swathes of laws and benefits in our society that will never touch me personally - that doesn't invalidate them. Just because I don't need a wheelchair I don't begrudge the push for ramp accessibility - ditto for things like childcare which my parents benefited from but which I've got no intention of exercising. These benefits build a better and more equitable world and I'm fine with paying an almost inconceivably small personal expense to maintain them. Not everything in life needs to revolve around an absolute maximization of personal gain.
    • Shared404 5y ago
      > Not everything in life needs to revolve around an absolute maximization of personal gain. I'm stealing this if you don't mind. A very succinct way of putting a concept I've failed to explain before.
  • LorenPechtel 5y ago
    I don't need the column but I need what it produces. Thus I do pay the increased costs of putting it behind a paywall.