GPS has made a major impact on our world. How is it a free service that anyone with a phone can access? How is it profitable for companies to offer services like navigation without subscription fees or ads?
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It’s not free. It’s an investment in infrastructure that we (US citizens) all collectively paid for with our taxes 40 years ago. We are still paying for maintenance of that system every year.
Guess what? It works great for the most part, just like interstates, food inspections, and air traffic control. For some reason, there are a great many people in the US who don’t ever want us to spend our money on such a valuable publicly available and useful resource that helps improve human lives immeasurably simply because the people they voted for couldn’t come up with such a good idea.
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