I disagree. I find it condescending when techies say "the average user doesn't make the difference between sharing a file to a device next to them and sharing a file over the Internet".

Everybody, and I mean everybody is capable to understand that to connect their Bluetooth headset to their phone, they do it over Bluetooth. And that to connect to the Internet, they can either go over WiFi (which is "free") or cellular (which is less "free").

> People don't really internalize that those are two different use cases.

We actively keep them ignorant, and then we use their ignorance as a justification. I find it sad.

What if we said "People don't want to drive their car somewhere, they want to go from A to B. We should prevent them from learning how to drive so that they would have to pay for our taxis".