Yup.
If everything in life was free, we might enjoy it for awhile but we wouldn’t be truly happy.
Its the things that we buy that cost us something tangible, give us the greatest satisfaction.
I don’t know why but human nature is wired to get something that we have attained through our own effort not from the kindness of others.
There is a place for kindness in this world; we wouldn’t have light without it but a world without our being able to put something into it, literally kills us on the inside.
Keep that mind when you hear people offer you something for nothing. The lack of a price paradoxically enough, tends to make it less worthwhile to you than you think.
Its a lesson every generation needs to learn anew. Nothing in life is truly free.
There is a place for kindness in this world; we wouldn’t have light without it but a world without our being able to put something into it, literally kills us on the inside.
That's exactly the argument Gingrich put forth in the 90's to attain welfare reform. It worked as Clinton caved and passed it, but all those reforms have been undone by Obama and blue states, so we're back to generational welfare and lost generations.