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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day agoNo one is saying you should pay the same total bill as they do, just the same connection fee if you and crypto boy have the same hookup.
You’d pay $10 for a connection fee and $1 for power while they’d pay $10 for a connection fee and $1000 for power.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Understood.
And that “$10 connection fee” makes perfect sense for covering per-user administrative costs. The cost is the same to send a $1 bill or a $1000 bill to the customer; a per-user fee to cover that administrative fee is not unreasonable.
But they aren’t talking about administration. They are talking about infrastructure maintenance. Infrastructure is a shared resource, and the maintenance charges scale (primarily) with total consumption, not per-user.