Comment by michaelsshaw

If that's how you see it, literally everything costs money at some point in the line. So I guess nothing is free. But we have a word for it, so let's give it an actual use.

You enter at no cost (with exceptions, of course). That's free. They should continue to be open and free; a world without parks, without use of public funds for public good, isn't a good one. Profits be damned, I want my parks.