The Great Exchange

Fri May 29 23:00:43 UTC 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.