Money where the mouth is

Yesterday, i realized yet again, that I'm not a customer to Facebook just as I'm not to my newspaper. I'm 2 times 10 to the power of minus 7th percentage (0.2 millionth of a percentage point) of its inventory. Now Facebook isn't going to charge me for usage. Then through Facebook, I read The Economist Newspaper. I'm part of its inventory too - why because I'm subject to the advertisements that it sells. Unlike Facebook, The Economist, or FT, and suchlikes want me to pay for being their inventory. I won't. Today, I donated to Wikipedia - someone for whom PLUs (people like us) are the customer in two ways - mind you customers twice over and not paying inventory! The information helps almost everyone who uses wikipedia to hunt for information and secondly wikis can be set-up by those who want to showcase (or showoff) their knowledge. Don't pay to be inventory because it doesn't pay to be paying inventory.