"Free" Business Opportunities

So over the past couple of weeks I have been noticing companies such as ZeekRewards and Strong Future International (SFI) that let you sign up with their affiliate program for free. However, in order to earn a decent livable income you must upgrade and pay a monthly fee. This to me is unacceptable. Now its one thing to have people sign up for free and then they'll need to pay for advertising costs such as business cards, internet marketing like Google Adwords, SEO tools, leads, etc. Those are optional services that are available to any business owners. You can argue that for any business opportunity you have to pay something but that's not true. When I started up my Judgment Recovery business I didn't need to pay any company monthly. Yes I needed to pay to recover a Judgment as far as levying fee's and court fee's but that's understandable. Those affiliate programs are going to be making money off of you so why should you need to pay them anything? It doesn't cost these companies much money if any to provide you with an affiliate link. The back offices that some of these affiliate programs offer are good and all but you still shouldn't need to pay for them. The only acceptable thing I see paying for something is opening up a franchise of a restaurant like McDonalds. Opening something like that up will cost you money. If you open up a McDonalds you are automatically going to have a great client base because of their reputation. You also have their recipes for their food that they had to put a lot of money into. So of course you would need to pay a franchise fee. Now I can go online to commissionjunction.com and sign up for several well known companies as an affiliate for free. I then put their banners on my website and get paid for people who sign up by clicking on my banners. They aren't charging me anything to do this. So why should I pay a monthly fee to sign up with a company to promote their website and earn them a large amount of money and I only see a small percentage of it? It doesn't seem fair to me. That is why I created my website twothousandmonthly.com for legit free work from home opportunities. I did post ZeekRewards on my website but I have since taken it off once I found out about needing to pay a monthly fee to really make any money. They have a profit sharing program but you only make about .10-.20 cents a day. You can only take advantage of that if you are paying a monthly fee. That isn't worth it to me. Now say if there is an opportunity out there that provides you with an auto responder, leads, etc then I would see paying them a nominal fee every month to be acceptable. There is no way that I am going to pay a company just to be able to advertise their name and make a commission off of though.