I've been thinking lately that the proliferation of ad-supported services, as well as venture capital supported services (free while they look for a way to mone

I've been thinking lately that the proliferation of ad-supported services, as well as venture capital supported services (free while they look for a way to monetize) is an overall bad thing. If big companies are giving stuff away for free for 5 years, or a decade, or more, it's hard for any business to develop selling that stuff. It's hard to even justify the idea of selling that stuff, or similar stuff, when someone else is giving it away for free. It's unlikely that any charity will develop, giving these things away for free, because no one recognizes that is even charity. It prevents governments from recognizing that there are niches for fundamental services that have developed that could reasonably be provided by the government or by a regulated utility. I don't know what to do about companies giving things away for free and people and even society becoming dependent on it. It doesn't seem like it's going to stop on it's own.