{"id":5405,"date":"2012-08-02T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:53:33","slug":"the-cost-of-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-cost-of-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0100_TheCostOfFr1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We get a lot of things for free on the internet these days. For their own sake companies better not dare charge money for them writes Chana Joffe-Walt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Veterans don&#8217;t like the Red Cross because during World War 2 the Red Cross would offer free coffee and donuts but soon began to charge for them.<\/li>\n<li>They only started to charge for them because their British allies had to pay for the same things, and this was creating tensions.<\/li>\n<li>The change didn&#8217;t last long \u2013 the Red Cross soon went back to giving donuts away for free. But veterans continue to harbour feelings of resentment.<\/li>\n<li>The problem wasn&#8217;t the price \u2013 it was that the positive image that the Red Cross had built was ruined. The resentment stemmed from disappointment.<\/li>\n<li>Companies that try to charge for products presently given away for free might face a similar backlash \u2013 even if the prices were reasonable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including the economist that discovered the phenomenon, what an archivist for the Red Cross has to say about it, the role of categorical change, and a wider transcript of an interview, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/156737801\/the-cost-of-free-doughnuts-70-years-of-regret\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/156737801\/the-cost-of-free-doughnuts-70-years-of-regret\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/07\/26\/freak-est-links-58\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get a lot of things for free on the internet these days. For their own sake companies better not dare charge money for them writes Chana Joffe-Walt: US Veterans don&#8217;t like the Red Cross because during World War 2 the Red Cross would offer free coffee and donuts but soon began to charge for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0100_TheCostOfFr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7431,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/7431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}