If 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 ful

If 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.