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by xienze 3446 days ago
> I don't need income to drive on the highway.

Don't need gas?

> Some services are important enough to be socialised, so that the service is open to everyone, irrespective of their income, wealth, or lack of.

And they continue to operate so long as there are enough people who _actually pay for these services_. Maybe you don't fall into that category, fine. But there are a lot of people who do, and it all comes straight out their paycheck. It is not free for them by any stretch of the imagination.

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Your logic is not sound though. Some people are not paying a dime while others pay more. And by far you are using way more road that you are able to afford, just like what happens with shared hosting.

More importantly, according to your definition, nothing is ever free. If I tell you that you can pick a fruit from a tree in a national park, you will probably use a ridiculous argument that national parks are protected, therefore somebody pays for the maintenance, etc.

So no offense, but please don't be an idiot, and by that I mean "someone who acts in a self-defeating or significant counterproductive way."