-Triple Heart Bypass: 0 Kroner.
-13 years of primary and secondary schooling: 0 Kroner
-Undergraduate university degree: 0 Kroner
-Taking a piss in a mall in Stockholm: 10 Kroner.
From this, I can only conclude that as a society they're far more worried about the moral hazard problems with urination than with, say, wasting years on a degree in gender studies. If we make urination free, people will just be going back to toilets every 5 minutes, flushing them over and over for fun!
Talk about a strange preference ordering.
(from a conversation with The Greek, which also ranged over the question of whether 'Stockholm Syndrome' was so-named because when you get to Stockholm you initially think it sucks, but gradually get used to it).
*!= "Free" - Weak Form No Free Lunches applies, as always.
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