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How/why did "free" become a default expectation for certain things?
I work as a reporter for a newspaper and every week I read comments from people complaining that our content requires a subscription to read online. I thought this was an interesting response, since you have to pay whenever you want to read a physical paper.
It connects to a topic I keep coming back to in my head: people expect certain things, particularly on the internet, to be free. Sure, things like YouTube and Twitch have ads, but you don't have to pay to use them unless you want to. If you had to pay to use them at all, I imagine people wouldn't be too pleased about that. And I'm just wondering why that is.
u/Jaded_Standard4239 — 6 days ago