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Agreed. It seems that the A/B testing proves that humans are easily tricked, not that they like hidden fees.

• stillsleepy 4y ago
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    • yamtaddle 4y ago
      It's because nobody actually has trouble understanding what "free" means in these contexts except the same small percentage of morons one can get to say any dumb thing one wishes to find someone saying, and people pretending not to understand it on Internet forums to passive-aggressively make a very stupid point. Everyone else gets it. You're not preaching some great message to the sheeple, you're just making noise.
  • II2II 4y ago
    In my neck of the woods, it is called public health care or public health insurance. Oddly enough, neither the government nor the media feel compelled to make it sound like you're getting extra value by calling it free. Of course, this applies to a broad range of public services such as education and libraries. (As for why these services should be offered at no cost to the users, it has to do with accessibility to people regardless of their income. No one pretends that no cost to users means that it is free. Everyone understands that it is wrapped into their taxes and that taxes are tied to their income.)