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pjc50today at 8:38 AM0 repliesview on HN

Increasingly of the opinion that "free service with no support that's structurally essential for an economy" is some kind of trap. Possibly just the most comfortable kind of trap, a local optimum from which it's difficult to escape.

This is starting to become important as countries (very unwisely!) start tying things like national ID and banking to smartphones.