> Now they are owned by firms which prefer to maximize profits over providing the products so cheaply that they are used widely and provide maximum benefit to society.  

If everyone is in it for the money, it's dog eat dog. But if everything is a giveaway, who pays for it? 

I mean, we all want to do good but it's pretty to hard to run a company alwys in the red. Only the government seems to be able to make that work. Thing is, they keep asking us for the money to do it. 

Turns out we need a few people making money after all. Somebody has to pay the bills.

PLB

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