Agree.
First, "no such thing as a free lunch".
Next, "if you cant find the product, you ARE the product".
Next, in a truly Free Market, no business can compete with a government that provides anything "for free". But since nothing is truly ever free, the costs come from somewhere. I think its the Scale that confuses people in what is free. Such as a "free sample". At the smallest scale of perspective, a person can eat the sample "for free", but stepping back, who ever is giving that "free sample" is incurring that cost as a form of advertisement.
This site is another good example of "free". Josh used to own the site, and he paid out of his own pocket for it, but made it "free" to us. He offset the cost of running the site with donations. How much time do our Site Owners spend on maintaining our "free" site? We arent paying them for their time, and they arent asking that we do pay them to be a part of the community. Getting bigger "free health care" is afforded by either taxation or inflation. Funding has to come from somewhere. In a Free Market, the price is determined by supply and demand. Other things are also factored in, such as time to create a product or provide a service, overhead, and labor costs. But what happens when that "free health care" is used to prohibit competition? Even when it is not, how is "free" paid for? Who incurs those costs? Too often, it is the poorest that pay the highest price for "free".
Its exactly as @
acptulsa said, they dont want to hear it when we explain that "free" costs the poor the most. They are taught to listen to non libertarian points of view on what being a libertarian is instead of entertaining the ideas of libertarians themselves. The minds of the controlled are always taught to remain small, only look at the direct "free" in appearance, but not to look at the big picture of the consequences of "free". Its like listening to someone tell you that the Mona Lisa is crap so you never want to see it for yourself. People are taught to only listen to what Figures of Authority say about the Mona Lisa, or "free" or "Libertarian" or "Freedom" but will not look upon the Mona Lisa themselves and decide for themselves whether or not the Mona Lisa was a work of art or if it was crap as they have been repeatedly told.
Censorship is one of those "free" things that is prohibiting the ideas of Libertarian and a truly Free Market ideals from spreading by prohibiting competing ideas, just like a government operated "free" burger shop would prohibit competition from Burger King, and mom and pop shops. Free Speech was supposed to prevent Censorship so we didnt have to shout from rooftops.
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