What? Royalty get a free lunch. Lottery winners get a free lunch. Trust-fund babies and the children of the wealthy get free lunches. All children who must lega

What? Royalty get a free lunch. Lottery winners get a free lunch. Trust-fund babies and the children of the wealthy get free lunches. All children who must legally be fed and raised by their parents for years get literal free lunches, and many get free lunches at school. Dividend receiving shareholders get free lunches, passive income businesses are free lunch generators. Poor people can visit charitable places such as some Sikh Gurdwaras and get literal free lunches. People who forage, pick fruit off trees or go fishing get free lunches. People find money on the streets and use it to buy lunch. People dig free lunches up from archaeology sites or beachcombing. People on welfare get free lunches. Government officials who take bribes get free lunches. People get free lunches for Christmas or Birthday. People attend seminars and conferences for the free lunches, and accept free lunches from prospective business partners or vendors. Thieves get free lunches. Landlords get free lunches. Foodbanks hand out free lunches. Free lunches are everywhere. Children who learn that they aren't just by observing the world, aren't very observant. > "Nobody gives away something for nothing." Open Source software props up a lot of the internet, much of it given away for nothing. College students make a point of going round the dorms of wealthy international students who buy furnishings and electronics for the year, then leave it all out on the kerbside instead of shipping it back home. People around the wealthy Western world send stuff to the dump or to charity shops just to avoid the bother of putting it up for sale and collecting money for it. There's an entire website (FreeCycle) created just to organise giving things away for nothing. Google N-Grams records people giving away dogs with the term "free to good home" in the 1940s.