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> Michael Shields writes: > > Despite preductions, very few resources have ever actually become "too > > cheap to meter". > > Television? Local phone service in many places? Matchbooks? Sewer > service? Television's incremental cost of another viewer is zero, and always has been. This is not a matter of being too cheap to meter. Matchbooks are not given away in unlimited quantities. I honestly have no idea how sewer service is priced, or how the US came to have flat-rate local calling. -- Shields, CrossLink.
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