Your point about how users have no idea how much sending and receiving data instantaneously actually costs is well taken.

A similar issue abounds in the food markets. Everyone wants locally-grown, organic, non-GMO, no-pesticides, etc. food, but many balk at the cost. The milk from the local dairy farm is going to cost far more than the milk in the supermarket, because that supermarket milk is subsidized. Buying milk at the farmer's market is the first encounter many people have with how much that milk actually costs to produce and bring to market.

It's a difficult, but necessary, mental adjustment we'll have to make if we want to transition to a more human future.

I expect costs will go down over time for freedom tech—and for high-quality food—as economies of scale kick in, but that can only happen if we accept that there will be an adjustment.