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The practice of distributing goods and services at no cost is in focus, with the underlying logic now under examination.
The question being raised is whether entities doing the distributing can articulate a coherent reason for the arrangement, and whether that reason holds when pressed.
Whatever the end user pays, production and delivery inputs persist, and that gap lands somewhere.
A subsidy absorbs it, or a paying tier does, or an advertiser covers it, or data collected from the free user feeds a separate revenue stream. Each of those financing mechanisms is real.
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