Free...ish?

[chaoticset]

Nearly-free goods permit waste and experimentation, which breed new options for that good, which increase its abundance and lower its price, which generate more new options, which permit further novelty. And so on. These loops work on each other, compounding the effects between techniques and goods, and supercharging the entire ecology of

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[aesmael]

Fixed utility?

[chaoticset]

Unchanging features.

A laptop from five years ago has fixed utility. The concept of "laptop" itself, however, has variable utility because the features and hardware change over time.