Free things are less desirable because they lack scarcity and perceived value / quality.
No amount of branding will change that.
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YES!!
So you pay a lot
Nothing is free.
If you convert extra time spent on free products into your hourly wages, they are almost certainly more expensive than most paid alternatives.
How this thought align with people using social media for "free"?
They expect it to be free and don’t view it as a good. More like a utility.
Yes, they're less desirable, and are therefore perceived as less valuable, but they're sometimes more essential.
One reason some things are free is because it is considered overly burdensome or even cruel to demand pay for them, so that their provision becomes a "good work".
Sometimes they are free because the provider wants you to have it more than you would ever desire it. Then, they get something else out of it.
How would you correlate both opinions with nostr?
air is pretty much in most situations an example of a non-economic good. it only has value in situations where the air has been polluted mostly. this would be an example of two uses in collision, burning coal and living near it are in conflict with each other so an economization is needed. either the plant cleans up its smoke stack or the people move, at the expense of the smoke stack.
Fun fact, there was a time in US history when lobsters were so ubiquitous that nobody wanted to eat boing old disgusting lobsters and they were instead fed to prisoners.