Originally Posted by JonLaw
Our entire way of life is essentially "free".

Half of our problem is how to allocate the free stuff.

The other half is trying to figure out whether and, if so when, the free stuff is going to run out.

Oh, there's a lot more to it than that. There's also gathering enough of the free stuff that you can make sure it's not free anymore. Or convincing people to pay for things that they could get for free anyway. It's even better if you can get them to pay for nothing at all.

Originally Posted by JonLaw
And "investment" in what exactly?

The goal being?????

Monetizing them, natch.