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Re: The Great Exchange
- From: Michael Shields
- Date: Fri May 29 19:15:31 1998
> 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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