• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Exhausting. If you don’t consider anything in the world is free, why did you bother saying Lemmy isn’t free?

    Plus this argument is rubbish, it’s like saying “my car isn’t free, nor is the road, nor is my petrol, so the beach isn’t free”.

    Just because you have to buy clothes to go out for a walk, it doesn’t make it any less free.

    What are you trying to argue here? That the term “free” shouldn’t exist because in a capitalist society everything has dependencies? (I still don’t get how that relates to my original post which was purely about doing business with corporations).

    Then fine, Lemmy isn’t free, neither is the sun, or going for a walk. You win. Good day sir.

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        3 days ago

        Yes I do. I’m totally the one who can’t understand that “free” is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.