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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

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Essay title: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

The song goes, "the best things in life are free" well, in order to get the best things in life, you have to survive first right? And in order to survive, you need to do a lot of work to have a lot of money. Nothing in this material world is free. Everything comes from something else. And somehow, somebody out there is paying for it even though you got something for absolutely nothing.

Here's a situation. You're sitting in a restaurant and the owner rewards you with free food for being the first customer to arrive. You feel delighted that you don't have to pay for anything. You eat and eat without even thinking. You try something and if you don't like it, you throw it away since you're not paying for it. But don't you realize that it is still being paid for by someone? The owner paid the cook to shop for the ingredients. The grocery store where the cook bought the ingredients bought those stuff from a certain company. And that certain company paid farmers to plant and harvest those food from them. That company

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