29 May
1998
29 May
'98
7 p.m.
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.