I'm not forced to use Windows at home and I don't have to pay for it at work.

You're forced to drink water for much stronger reasons yet you pay for it if you don't dig up your own.

I most country's water is free, you pay for the infrastructure that brings it into your household and cleans it.

Digging up and purifying your own water source is a bit more effort than installing a widely available and well documented crack

What does that have to do with anything?

I mean, it takes no effort at all to copy/paste AGPL code into a proprietary project. But you're still not supposed to do it, right?

you can get a free glass of water from bars and the like

... in the US. In most of the world, water in restaurants costs money.

In most country's the water is free in restaurant too, you pay for the drinking glass.