The thing is, in one's peer group it's reasonable to give advice like "just sign up for faster internet", because you know the other person and can judge whethe

The thing is, in one's peer group it's reasonable to give advice like "just sign up for faster internet", because you know the other person and can judge whether they "just" need a nudge to go check out cable and fibre internet, whether they can afford an extra $50 a month, whether it might be available in their area, whether their housemates would let them just pay for the whole damn thing, whether they'd get $50 of subjective value from reliable and fast internet, and so on. Giving out advice like that on the internet is interesting because it's almost a problem of being too friendly with strangers, to the point of acting like you know them personally. As a counterpoint, I'm several hundred thousand dollars richer and got to have a fun year and a half living in SF, because a friend told me to "just apply to big US tech companies and get an E-3 visa", and it actually worked.