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As a relative newcomer to the Bitcoin scene, I will allow myself to be guided by my betters, but I am still a bit upset that all those hours spent clicking on things on the free BTC websites produced payments that are worth far less in reality than I thought they would be.

Yes, I'd be pretty upset with the creators of those sites for luring me in with false hope as well if I were you.

They make no effort to educate their visitors to the limitations of the payouts they provide.

Let me get this straight

paying in fractional btc is not cool and reason to get upset
but charging 2 or more times the amount your are transferring for a minutes computer time to do the transfer is OK

guess I'll stop mining and just rob people to do transfers

It's not a minute's worth of computer time. Your transaction, all that dust being spent, will be stored by the network FOR EVER. Any time someone downloads a full blockchain for a brand new full-node, they will have to store and process that giant dust transaction. That is the reason the fees are what they are.

so the network does the work with their computers with no compensation
and the fee goes to who...
I gotta become the "who" get paid lots of bit coin for letting everyone else do the work

Are you trying to pick an argument, or are you truly asking a question here?

The fee goes to the miner who puts your transaction into the block chain.

no argument intended
just wondering how I might get paid for doing that
xfer fees are higher than mining profits