Oh my gosh!! I just put myself in a group with many of you here....Too much time on my hands!! So, I just don't buy food, medicine, or pay my bills so I can sit around and "B___h" about having to pay $30. to find MO caches. Guess I'll just have to find myself a nice park bench and whittle. Maybe someone will give me a knife and a piece of wood.
Then my question to you is why do you argue one issue when your problem is with the other?
In the case that you presented "the starving student," I can accept that as a reason not to be Premium member. For someone who caches all the time, but refuses to "pony up" $30.00, I consider them a bit "parasitic."
I debate these topics to defend those of us who like to hide PMOCs as a perk to other monetary supporters of this site. I have 81 active hides, 15 of them are currently PMOCs. If a cacher can't afford to pay for a premium membership, they can find my other 66 caches.
I will never buy into the Elitism argument, unless premium memberships costs rise to hundreds of dollars.