> If receiving mail is a basic skill, then so is having a mailing address. Thus, Alaskans should subsidiz my rent.

No, that does not follow.

> As for your arguments about subjective feelIngs, if the minor grudge people feel when they are forced to pay for video games is smaller than the enjoyment gamers gain, should the government force non-gamers to subsidize gamers? If not, why not?

Because you're trolling. I have no interest discussing this with somebody who obviously has no interest in what I have to say about it and instead just wants to have an excuse to talk about themselves.

Do you agree that some things should be subsidized/socialized?

Yes - public goods. Even some private goods where irrational behavior might lead to them being under provisioned.

I am generally an economic utilitarian. I just can't see any utility gain from subsidizing rural folks.

I like not having to grow my own food. And I think rural people appreciate all the technology and media, enabled by population density, that we send their way. It's a nice symbiotic relationship.

This will probably continue to be the case until someone figures out how to make vertical farming competitive.

Indeed - its a nice symbiotic relationship enabled by trade and market pricing signals.

Why would market pricing fail in the case of letters when it seems to work so well (as you notes) for package delivery, food production and technology?

Note that this subsidizion can be a private, capitalist decision too. At least the package and mail carriers in my country do not charge by the mile, they charge by weight, so this is probably a non-issue.

> I just can't see any utility gain from subsidizing rural folks.

Ah, so it's "government subsidy" and you have a hard time imagining how that is good for society. Understood, you really are trolling.

You can receive mail with out a mailing address or a PO box.

I feel like you are not very educated in these matters. You act as if rent is never subsidized?

Honestly, and I don't want to be mean, but you have a stupid argument. Rent is actually subsidized in certain cases if certain qualifications are met. The same is true for post office. It's not like someone like you, apparently of the same intellectual level, who would build a house at the top of a volcano could (since you want to play the silly examples game) can expect the USPS to deliver mail to you.

You think you are being logical but honestly you are just silly and not educated about these matters.