You're actually completely wrong.

YOU DUN REED GUD.

Absolutely agree, but it will stop the behavior and stop anyone else who might be doing something similar. Their legal, accounting and processing costs alone will be in the millions.

I will, I'll just get a second checking account and link it with CurrenC. Then I'll keep a small amount of cash in it, however much I think I need. Then if I need to add more I take out my smartphone, open my banking app and move money instantly between accounts. No big deal.

Oh Oh let me guess! By having a phone the size of a tablet so the battery is huge?

...except for all the parts where he illustrates that it's wrong.

Cool, prove me wrong. Go deliver 100/100 service to the continental US. The only way you're going to deliver bidirectional 100Mb service is by running fiber to every house in the country. You don't have to be a LEC or an MSO to run fiber. Call your municipality, get the easement agreements and the pole attach agreements and run the fiber yourself. Let me know how it turns out. If you deliver 100/100 service to my doorstep for $40/mo I'll be the first one to sign up.

About 0.1% of the world has access to those speeds. I don't know what you're smoking that you think that constitutes "basic internet service".

Now try the top 10%, per my previous post. Let's play both extremes.

If your job depends on Internet access, buy a MiFi? Unfortunately you don't have any right to stop someone else from using a public hotspot however they like.

It's actually only 120k. Definitely not reserved for only the 1%. More like top 10-20%.

Good? Considering I can't seem to avoid systemd these days.

Since when is running a few Cat5e/Cat6 drops "substantial structural or wiring modifications" ? You could have a drop in every room in the house for a couple hundred bucks. Or do it yourself on a Saturday. This is really, REALLY easy.

If you can deliver $40 100/100 service, go for it. Anyone can put fiber in the ground and on poles. I'll pay for it. Everyone would. The reality is you cannot without massive government subsidies. In the US it would be hundreds of billions of dollars. Google's already trying. So unless you think Google also has a monopoly and is trying to screw you out of more money, then your argument kind of falls apart.

because systemd is already too large of a single dependency with too many centralized features/code/power

Blaming corporate culture is bullshit because most women from birth are told to not go into tech. The problem isn't graduating millions of female computer scientists and then they all get their first jobs and quit because of misogyny. They never studied tech to begin with. The problem isn't a office policy one, it's a cultural and societal problem that discourages women from pursuing careers in tech from about the age of three when they're given their first barbie doll.