Air is Free
How do you get people to pay for air?
1. Sell them an air purifier
2. Sell them an air freshener
3. Sell them oxygen in a bottle
4. Sell them an air conditioner
etc.
The cost of air is zero.
What is its value?
Cross Posted at Power and Control
Economics In A Free World
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3 responses to “Economics In A Free World”
Are you sure you’re taking into account the cost to the environment of exhaling? CO2 is a deadly gas, and while the air might be technically “free,” the fact is, every time we breathe, we emit deadly global greenhouse gases.
It’s the exhalation we should tax — and heavily!
To save the planet!
Don’t forget oxygen bars.
Oh yea on your post a few weeks back on carriers doubleing up in the Mideast.
You were right I was wrong.
I remember an old Donald Duck comic book.
Somehow Sharkey The Lawyer got Donald (it involved a lawsuit against Eric The Red) to agree to charge for oxygen breathed and measured by a mandatory oxygen mask.
The advertising line went:
“A gasp – ten cents;
A wheeze – one quarter;
A Deep Breath – Call for an estimate.”
Same idea as you described, Eric…