If you believe that egress prices are fake and pure profit, I encourage you (or someone else reading this with the same belief) to try running your own independ

If you believe that egress prices are fake and pure profit, I encourage you (or someone else reading this with the same belief) to try running your own independent web hosting service ;) I think what you will discover is that network bandwidth is a finite resource you have to pay for and ration out to your customers, and that the easiest way to finitize and ration something your customers expect (errantly) to be infinite is to charge for it, and charge exactly that price that will cap demand!