freebee

Pragmatism. Japanese army did horrible things in Korea and China, so safer to side with USA, who also happened to suddenly own the worlds most powerful weapon ever and had shown they weren’t afraid to use it.

Imo it’s mainly the low key developers using some free API and dreaming it will always stay free. This kind of developing is often basically volunteering for big private companies. Users just use whatever is big, easy available. They have less choice. Developers know what they are putting their effort into, re-enforcing it even more while gaining little from it.

The wind generated energy is super cheap, but maintaining balance on the network becomes more expensive. You pay for energy and network.

For processed foods it is a scam I think. Combined with subsidies and lower scale production. A veggie burger is objectively a lot cheaper to produce than a meat burger, but the meat is often cheaper still for the consumer…