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Not getting something you didn't pay for is not dysfunctional. It's what turned slavery-based, Feudal and Socialist countries into modern ones.

Your example seems to be unrelated, although it sounds frustrating.




But.. that’s not what happened. I was getting something I didn’t paid for .. that’s what I find dysfunctional. Because that means there’s a lot of extra effort in the country on getting unpaid services paid. My personal experience just adds the cherry on top that I was also not using it. So it was wasted effort on the provider and society in general.


> I was getting something I didn’t paid for .. that’s what I find dysfunctional

Fair enough, but that's why I was saying your experience seemed to not be relevant to the topic.




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