If you got to play from the non-blind positions 'for free' then if you just joined a table, and sat down in the cutoff, you should be able to play that hand without double posting, which of course is not the rule. That's telling me that the blinds are a charge to play the orbit and not just a charge to play in the blinds. Otherwise people could just sit out the blinds and save a crap load of money.

But I see your point. It does matter when you get charged the blinds like you said. So if you can make a play that is > -100 bb/100 from the BB, then you should because that's better than folding. In effect that's saying that the discount to enter does compensate for the crappy position for that play.