They pay to prioritize only because ISPs held their own customers hostage. Links would become saturated (because ISPs wouldn’t upgrade them) and they’d let cust

They pay to prioritize only because ISPs held their own customers hostage. Links would become saturated (because ISPs wouldn’t upgrade them) and they’d let customers suffer until people running CDNs paid ISPs to upgrade their own damn links. The same ones taxpayers already paid them to upgrade. The same taxpayers that paid the monopolistic ISPs for service. They weren’t double-dipping, they were triple-dipping. Look up “The Book of Broken Promises”. Legislators let the ISPs get away with it and it’s why we have such high prices for such trash service compared to other first-world countries.