In one of his sci-fi novels, Robert Heinlein established a colony on the moon. Their flag carried that acronym TANSTAAFL and that stands for "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
Is anything free? Apart from pleasures like walking under the stars or swimming in the ocean, I can't think of many. We get lots of free vegetables from our backyard garden, but when you consider the amount of work involved and all the fertilisers and so on, I wonder if it mightn't be cheaper to buy them at the store.
Nothing is really free.
At some point we will pay in some way.
I've always heard the old saying, "There is no such thing as something for nothing."
You can't get something for nothing unless somebody, somewhere, is getting nothing for something.
That somebody is often a taxpayer.
In one of his sci-fi novels, Robert Heinlein established a colony on the moon. Their flag carried that acronym TANSTAAFL and that stands for "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
Is anything free? Apart from pleasures like walking under the stars or swimming in the ocean, I can't think of many. We get lots of free vegetables from our backyard garden, but when you consider the amount of work involved and all the fertilisers and so on, I wonder if it mightn't be cheaper to buy them at the store.