To the Editor:
The word “free” is considered to be the most powerful word in the English language, but it has been abused so much that it has fallen out of favor with most people. The dictionary defines free as not subject to a given condition, costing nothing, gratuitous. The famous economist Milton Friedman popularized the saying “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” Essentially what this proverb intends to say is that one cannot get “something for nothing, everything has a price tag and someone pays.”
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July 24, 2019
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