In Consideration of Monetary Value

In answering the question of whether or not information should or should not be free, there is a mixed reaction to this issue.  In writing accounts of myself and my life as a cyclist, there is the hope of publishing as to be able to collect royalties.  However there is also the issue of where this writer accesses new and other info pertaining to everyday life and feeling somewhat hypocritical in wanting free info but yet wanting to charge for their personal publications.  In this is to be considered the privilege of being able to access through the University Libraries databases in order to find articles for research purposes.  However, just recently, this writer was willing to pay $40 to a railroad archives in order to access documents that could be of importance to a class in the current semester as well as to gain a significant insight to the history of a company known as ART.  This company served the specific purpose of hauling local perishables during the last century through the use of ice bunker refrigerator cars.  There is a possible chance that the info could be found online or at a specific railroading library such as the John Barringer Library of railroading in St. Louis.  But because of such an intense interest and having an archivist go to effort to dig up this info prompts the ideal of having to pay for the labor or get a bad rap.  In considering entertainment this writer enjoys the sport of cycling and being able to freely ride.  However, one of the bikes used by this writer had to have a chain replaced with the possibility of replacing the rings and cogs as well.  While the chain would be for a reasonable cost, the other components would have had to come at great cost, which thankfully did not.  And so for this writer it is mixed issue of whether or not stuff should or should not be free.  We don’t necessarily want to be “jacked” for things, but then we all to consider how to make a living as well.