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Re: The Great Exchange


From: shields () crosslink net (Michael Shields)
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:00:43 +0000 (GMT)

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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