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> 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?
by ralfd 5y ago
> 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?
- e2le 5y agoAir is abundant enough that humans need not consider it's costs when taking their next breath.
- p1esk 5y agoThe cost of breathing polluted air in big cities is your health.
- e2le 5y agoPolluted air, not air.
- p1esk 5y agoIf you are in a big city the air is polluted air.
- quadrangle 5y agoYes, and we can force "no free lunch" to be true if we use enough nuclear bombs to wipe out life on earth or something. 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.
- quadrangle 5y agoIf you want to just be contrarian, you'll say that it's not "free" if you have to CHEW your lunch. 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.
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