One sentence that summarizes economics is, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Sure, anyone can have a lunch and not pay for it, but it still is not free. Everything costs something to someone. Even if you don’t pay for your lunch, someone will, whether it be your lunch partner, the restaurant manager, the owner, or the people who supply the raw materials to make that food. Everything acquired by a person or a community is accompanied by a price, monetary or not. Jaime Fox said, “Ain’t nothing in this world for free, and it blows my mind how many fools just don’t get that.” I agree with this statement. Many forms of literature, such as Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream” and “Learning to Read and Write” by Fredrick Douglas, have documented the high price paid for freedom and basic human rights; they show that even freedom, where the root word is “free”, has an expensive tag.
Usually, when we think of something as being free, we associate it with money. I......
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