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		zeroonetwothree 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Baumol's Cost Disease Well there are other examples, eg Google Docs is free, no need to pay for Office. I don’t know about the aggregate data tbf

seizethecheese 60 days ago [–]

This is what came to mind for me. Certainly there are free versions of everything that used to cost money a decade or two ago. The paid software now is much more advanced.

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