Agreed, but "And once that's covered" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that story. And if those pages that cost $0.000007 to run are contributing $0 to that cost, they are at the mercy of their patron and in no way in control of their own fate.

It's a tragedy of the commons if 100% of those pages think someone else is going to foot the bill and one day the system that is actually footing the bill for those pages changes.